Kate&Co - The way I see it

2009-02-11T19:52:00.001+11:00

I've emailed everyone who left me an email addy. If you left me a comment, but have not heard from me, can you check that you left me an email addy, as I had a few comments that didn't. And there's a lot happening in my little girls life, she's kept me very busy to say the very least over the last few weeks. Email me and I'll see you on the other side :)

Just a quick update:

2009-01-27T23:00:00.002+11:00

I need to password protect my blog for a while. I have absolutly no problems with any of you girls, scrapping friends, photography friends, blogging friends or clients who pop in here whether it's often, or just every now and then. The reasons for needing to do this are just to protect my family for a while. I'd really love to share family life with you all still, especially updates on Amelia as she grows. So can you please, please email me or leave a comment with your email addy (the one you use to access blogger).

I'll leave this post up for a week, and there'll be no updates until after it's locked. So please let me know your details. It makes me sad to not be able to share for a while, but at the moment it just has to be done.

Surprise - She's here!!

2009-01-26T18:48:00.005+11:00

Amelia Kate Toland

6.26am 24th January 2009

2640g

(35 weeks gest)

I woke up at 3am Wednesday, suspicious that my waters might have broken... but in a bit of denial too. Took me an hour to decide that they actually had, and yes those pains are contractions Katie! I called the hospital and they wanted me in straight away as I was only 34 weeks, and hadn't had the group B strep swab done (it's done at 36 weeks). Went in and got checked over. Wasn't dialated at all which was good, but was having strong regular contractions. They thought she'd come that day, but hoped we could hold her in until 36 weeks. They started me on IV antibiotics as a precausion and took the swab. Told me only 1 in 800 swabs come back positive. So we waited, and waited and waited for the swab results to come back. I stayed in hospital on antibiotics. Friday afternoon we were waiting for the ok to go home on oral antibiotics and just come in each day for monitoring when at 4pm my midwife came in. "You're positive, Ob is on the way, you're having your baby now". Bit shocked over the whole thing we had about 2 mins to make some phone calls to check the kids were looked after and then it was on. They gave me the jell at 4.30pm and the drip went in at 11pm. Labour was pretty yuck. Not at all like the boys, which just felt so natural and right. Her's was scary. She had to be monitored every minute of labour. Her heartrate dropped very low quite a few times. I was told if she came out crying I could have a quick cuddle before she was taken away to Special Care. If she wasn't crying she'd just be taken. She did come out crying at 6.26am, and I got to have about a minute cuddle while they put the tags on her, but then they didn't like the way she was breathing and she was taken. Brett followed the peads up to the nursery and stayed with her while I was fixed up.She had chest Xrays, blood tests, IV antibiotics and IV fluids and glucose. My poor tiny darling was like a pin cushion wrapped up in wires. I went back to my room and slept for 2hours before being woken by the pead, saying they thought she had a problem with her lungs common in StrepB babies, where her lungs could collapse, and to prepare myself that she may be taken to Monash or Royal Childrens. Thankfully she did ok with the oxygen they could give her in her isolette and by the next morning they'd be able to get her back to regular air. Over 24hours had passed and I'd only touched her for those few short seconds in the begining, and Brett had not touched her at all. We felt so helpless, all we could do was sit by her isolette and watch her (and pray for her of course). There were wires, and tubes and computers and things beeping and alarms ringing and none of it made any sense to us. By lunchtime (Sunday) she was doing well, her breathing had picked up really well and they were happy with it. She was responding so quickly that they were fairly sure she didn't have the lung problem they'd originally suspected, but want to keep her on the AB's for 5 days as a precausion. They started to give her some colostrum I'd been expressing, via her nose tube (she can't suck yet). The first bit she tolerated well, but as the amount went up she she started to vomit more and more. So this morning (monday) it was decided to up her iv fluids again, and cut her milk intake back to 3ml every 2hrs. They say that it's just that her gut is too immature to tolerate the milk at the moment, and it's just a matter of waiting until she can tolerate it. They're still doing blood tests every day (well a few times a day really) and are watching how jaundiced she gets at the moment, and whether she'll need to go under lights as well.Late last night as I left my room to take her milk up to the nursery I ran into her nurse in the hallway comming to get me. My heart dropped that something was wrong with her, but she told me she'd come to see if I wanted to have a cuddle of her. As she put her in my arms I just burst into tears. To finally be able to hold her was just magic. Although she was still a tangle of wires and was connected to almost every piece of equipment in the room, it was so wonderful to be able to feel how soft her hair was, how smooth her skin is. To kiss her little forehead and smell her delicious baby scent. All the things I just took for granted with the boys.So as of a few hours ago... we're home... without our little girl. But I know that's just the way it has to be. She needs care that I just can't provide for her. (And I know there are a million other things that I've forgotten to include. Will add more piccies later.)

2009-01-15T17:14:00.002+11:00

Haming it up for the camera :) Lasted all of 3 seconds, but I got a few shots of him. Fish and chips on the beach for dinner. Pretty perfect end to the day. We also ended up running in to friends at the fish and chip shop so they also came down. The kiddo's all had a ball until the sun went down.

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2009-01-15T17:12:00.003+11:00

These photos are getting a little Ethan heavy... but Liam's getting very hard to catch these days! My cheeky muffin and his crazy faces.

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2009-01-15T17:10:00.002+11:00

This time last year he was still my baby! And now... no training wheels? Time just goes by so fast, and he's just growing up waaaay to fast.

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2009-01-15T17:08:00.003+11:00

cupcake anyone?

Ethan decided to help himself to a mini cupcake from the freezer, but thought he'd just warm it up for a little while first.... like an hour!

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2009-01-15T17:05:00.004+11:00

Friday night - woodfired pizza night.

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2009-01-11T14:12:00.001+11:00

Just a single photo today... but an everyday moment for sure.

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2009-01-11T00:37:00.003+11:00

A play at the park with cousins. We got there before the cousins so I managed to get a few pics. Chasing two kids around the park is definatly a lot harder being 8mths preg. Ducking down, hopping back up, changing direction... all a lot harder with a little human wedged in your pelvis.

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2009-01-10T13:44:00.001+11:00

After a hard day of fort building and testing.

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2009-01-09T15:15:00.002+11:00

Playing Diego (Ethan's Christmas present).

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2009-01-09T13:50:00.002+11:00

Bit behind. Had a few days of feeling not so great. Still took the pics though.

The boys, playing in their new/still being built fort. It's completed a bit more now, but still got a little bit to go. Isn't my hubby so clever :) It's the boys christmas present from Brett and I. They just love it. This night they pulled a pillow and blanket out and dragged it up there. They were all ready for a sleep out. Playing so well together. They didn't realise I was taking pics for a few minutes. Then the silly faces started. Boys huh.

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2009-01-03T21:55:00.002+11:00

Photo a Day 3rd January 2009.

32 weeks today.

Celebrated with yet another trip to the baby shop for yet more stuff. Think I'm done now.

I've packed up my lights and backdrops, so back to the bare basics again for a little while... until I can be bothered to unpack it all again. Seeing as the Christmas stuff is still not all packed up it may be a while. The boys are going great in one room. The baby room is almost complete. She has a name now. Finally. Besides a load or two more washing, I think we are pretty much ready. Just as well as I'm STILL getting the false labour pains. I woke up in pain the other night and had to have a shower at 2am to stop them, or at least slow them down. And have I mentioned that she's breech? Just like Ethan was. Hopefully she will turn soon. My platelets are also low which could be a problem if she doesn't turn over as we'd go elective C/S (we looked into it all when Ethan was breech) but hopefully she'll turn. There's still time. But I passed my diabetes test (not sure how with Christmas and all!)

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2009-01-03T12:50:00.003+11:00

Photo a Day #2. Childcare day. He just LOVES his carer and the small group of kids he sees each week. How come I can get everyone elses kids to give me beautiful natural smiles... but my own... ?

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2009-01-01T21:46:00.003+11:00

Happy new year! I'm having a baby next month :) How nice to be able to say that now hehee.

So, it's January, and that means it's Photo A Day time again. I love looking back at the pics from last Jan, so here we are to give it our best shot again. First up, the boys room. They are now in the same room and so far so good. A couple of piccies of their room (but I ended up not including any pics from the other end, so might add those later after I've resized. If I don't get these up now, they won't get up and then the whole photo a day thing will fall apart if I stuff up the first day! So... Here we go: 1st January 2009 in our house.

We are nearly done. Just have to hang some pictures, and their artwork canvases, and change the chest of draws over to a white one after a trip to Ikea. Oh and change the blind to curtains, so they can open them themselves.

Pickles and Icecream anyone?

2008-12-17T21:18:00.002+11:00

Disclaimer: Totally out of focus. Taken by a giggling 7 year old who was just too excited to get his hands on that icecream, while I was also being tackled from the side by an over anxious and slightly hyper 3yo, with bowl and spoon at the ready who also just wanted to get his hands on that icecream. Funny... no one wanted the pickles?

28weeks 5days

2008-12-11T17:59:00.002+11:00

Mylanta - Myfriend

2008-12-10T08:08:00.003+11:00

Say no more.

I didn't get as much done over the weekend as I wanted to. Got two coats of basecoat onto the boys doors, but no actual paint as yet. And have not even touched the spare room ones. Liam's wardrobe has the shelf/rail in it now, but Ethan's doesn't. Wrong size wood or something, has bought the (D?)H some more time. Will get around to adding pics.

Picked up their sheets and bedding this week, so we are getting there. They'll be in there soon and then we can start bub's room. Also picked up my sewing machine yesterday too.... now that will be a funny experience. My mum is a professional dressmaker, so I've never had a need to learn to sew, and well, mum teaching me always ends up a bad idea LOL So I'm going it alone! (Well to start with)

Had some more acupuncture yesterday. Feeling a lot better today. Was feeling VERY SORE the last week. Also been having a bit of fake labour. Bit early for that little one!! What is it with my uterus? Grrrrr. Does it have a built in ejector seat or something?

School chrissy concert tonight, and we really should be getting ready for school right now. Only jumped on to check the emails and bank balances. Hoping the rain holds off for tonight.

Wardrobe doors!

2008-12-06T10:44:00.003+11:00

Here we go with before and after piccies:
(You can tell I'm a portrait photographer, I don't have a wide angle lens. 28mm is as wide as I have, so I can't get much in the pic despite their rooms actually being quite big.

Before: Liam's room. His wardrobe is a bit smaller because the heater return vent is taking some of his wardrobe space (that bit of wall on the right, but the vent actually comes out the other side of the wall, in our family room). So for the past 4.5 years his wardrobe has looked like this. A coat rack he was given for his 2nd birthday holds his coats and dressing gown, hats etc, then the two tubs hold shoes in one, and bags in the other (how many backpacks does a kid need?) Most of his clothes were stored in a chest of draws on the other side of the room. But he had just turned 2 when we moved in here, so all his little tiny size 1 clothes fitted easily into the chest of draws. Moving on now to size 6 clothes, and I can't get anywhere near all of his clothes into the draws. So a lot of his stuff is now stored out in the family room in an Ikea unit with baskets for draws.

And stage 1 of after shots: WE HAVE DOORS!

I didn't want mirrored doors (obvious cleaning issues there), or laminate doors because I want to be able to paint them if/when I change the colour of the walls, but everyone seems to think I had two heads when I said I didn't want either of those LOL. And because the doors are higher than usual (I think they are 8ft or maybe 9ft or something), we couldn't get regular hollow fill doors, so we ended up with wooden ones, which I'll paint, and because of the size of them they had to go within frames so they wouldn't buckle or bend. We like very basic decorating with little decoration etc, so wanted really simple, clean lined plain doors. But the silver looks OK I think. Door handles etc throughout the house are silver (or brushed chrome).

Despite the fact that we have a spare room, the boys want to share, so Liam's room being the biggest will become their room, and the baby will go into Ethan's room. I'll share more piccies of the rooms as they develop :)

And Ethan's room before:

Bit of timber in there waiting to be made into parcel shelves, and the chest of draws Nat lent me while I was pregnant with Ethan LOL. All of Ethan's clothes are in those draws. There used to be a toy box to the left of the draws but it was deep and he kept tipping it over trying to get to the toys, so it got replaced with a few underbed baskets 'for the time being' (we have lots of those 'for the time being' things around here LOL) And the little shelves on the other side hold books, and a basket of shoes.

And After: With the doors on this one looks a lot wider. Liam lost about 1ft of his wardrobe with the heater vent, so the other two (spare room too, but didn't take a pic in there) are about 1ft wider. Good thing I suppose, if it's going to be a girls room LOL.

On a side note, what do you think of that light blue paint. It matches the cot bedding and rocking chair which also has pink, green and yellow in it, and I still ADORE that fabric, so I'm planning on keeping the wall blue and just adding a bit more pink. It's not too boyish is it? I'll post more piccies as this room develops too.

So my jobs for today: Pull the doors off (well Brett's job) and then I'll paint them, between editing Niamh's photos, while Teeds and Brett build the shelving inside! WHOOOOOOOOOOOT and then I can dig out/buy more coat hangers and hang clothes up!! So expect more photos.

And I realise this is absolutly boring to anyone else except me... and possibly Kathie LOL. But geez it's darn exciting for me.

2008-12-04T22:34:00.008+11:00

It's a crazy time of year hey. Everyone is busy. We still need to put up the Christmas tree, but it's in the roof, so that is a Brett-job to get it down... you know, any other year I'd do it, but this year. Well I'm not even sure I'd fit through the man hole door thingy at the moment.

Some recent piccies (squze the watermarking ect, being lazy and just pulled proof files I had on hand):
Tahlia...

Paige and Hunter exploring...

Archie...

Tristan...

Braedyn...

Matilda...

Nattie (my buddie! Did some corporate pics for them)

Taylah...

Ashlyn and mummy...

Fraser and mummy...

Liam's had school swimming this week. Then there's the christmas concert next week, the parent helpers morning tea I'm supposed to be at, the doc appts, the midwife appts, the accupuncture appts, the pilates classes, the photo shoots, the family commitments, the work comming and going, constant editing, gallery uploading, orders comming in, orders going out. I've had to start using my diary the 'proper way'. Usually I just list the things I need to do that day. Now I have to list it under the time slots and fill in how long it will take etc so I can see where I have gaps I can get things done.

Last Saturday night we went to my brothers house and walked into Frankston to the tree lighting festival. It's not a big walk at all, but I was a little worried about how I'd go. I'd been having huge braxton hicks, that take my breath away and actually make me stop what I'm doing. I'd had them quite a bit on Saturday, and by Saturday night they were really constant. I was getting about 1 minute between them, but was pretty sure they were just braxton hicks, nothing more. But later that night they started to go into my back and were starting to get painful. Thankfully after lying down for a while they just went back to painless ones, and after a while slowed down in frequency and intensity. But it made us both realise that I have to slow down. Working up to 50hrs a week, plus running around after the kids and trying to get to all the places/do all the things others want me to do/go is too much. So I've tried to pace myself a bit more this week. Christmas is just comming up so quick and there is still so much work to get through to get photos out by then. But I'm doing my very, very best.

Tomorrow morning our wardrobe doors are comming! Exciting!! I took some before pics this morning as I thought I'd forget or not have time tomorrow morning. Mum's comming over to house sit for me though while they get done as I have to do school/childcare drop off, midwife appt and photo delivery. And then should hopefully be able to squeeze in about 2.5hrs work before leaving again to do the school runs. Oh how nice it would be to be able to morph myself into two people LOL. Everyone is the same at this time of year though. It's a busy time. We are no different. Everyone does the best they can.

So plodding away, Finn's pics are next (and almost done),

then Niamh,

then Patrick,

then Sienna, Will and Matise

then Lachlan, Bethany and Sophie

then Olivia

then Cooper.

We made it through :)

2008-11-29T09:51:00.003+11:00

Week 26 had a big shaddow over it in my mind. Week 26 with Ethan was the week my pelvis separated. The week the cartlidge at my pubic bone snapped away from the bone... obviously leaving me in *a lot* of pain for the rest of my pregnancy. So it would be fair to say I'd been worried about getting this far. To add to it I had a beach shoot booked for this week, which was booked before I even knew I was pregnant. Walking on the beach is REALLY bad for my pelvis and to get to the beach I use for photos it's quite a hike up the beach - as some of you would know LOL.

But yay... we made it to 27 weeks and all is good (well as good as I can hope for anyway LOL). Now having accupuncture every 2 weeks, and still doing pilates every week. This week I need to get my diabetes test done too, and have a checkup with the doc, before a check up with the midwife.

Work is crazy busy, but getting near the end. I do remember saying something about limiting sessions to one a week. Well yeah right... I've been doing 4 or 5 a week. Crazy. But it's slowing down now, and I'm really looking forward to Christmas and getting the boys and baby's rooms orgainsed. I got quotes done to have the wardrobes done. OMGosh you just can not possibly understand how awsome it is to have wardrobes after living in a (not finished) house with no wardrobes for almost FIVE FREAKING YEARS. One of those jobs we'll get done one day. One of those jobs that something else always seemed more important than. But now, with another bub on the way I decided enough is enough and I want them done. Very exciting. I'll post piccies soon of before's and afters. And the rooms as they get re-decorated.

And it's nearly time to put the christmas tree up and decorate the house. Ohh it's so fun. Now I just have to go finish off these photos so I can get on with the decorating stuff :)

Oh and did you know if you click on the numbers on that little baby ticker that they change. Tells you how many weeks preg, how many days left etc etc. Well 91 days left! OMG!!

Help!

2008-11-09T14:00:00.002+11:00

So many names I *like*, but I just keep thinking there's still one out there that I'll just *love*. The one we'll know is THE one. There's a boy name on there too.... just in case (and cos we already had that one sorted before the scan).

I need to make a start on her scrapbook! But unfortunatly, that's in line behind a whole lotta other stuff at the moment.

Liam's party went well. They all had a ball which is all that really matters. I'll post some piccies soon.

The bug got me :(

2008-10-30T22:31:00.002+11:00

I suppose when you're looking after two sick kiddo's you're going to get it. What felt like hayfever starting turned into either a pretty full on cold, or the flu. Hopefully I'm over the worst of it now though and it's only going to get better from here. I've been saying that for the past two days LOL. I woke the other night at 2am, unable to breath and feeling like those panick attacks were comming back. I have so much on my plate work wise, and even when I'm asleep I'm dreaming about the things I have to get done (or having nightmares that they didn't get done). The only way to get them off my mind is to get them done. So when I woke at 2am I tossed and turned for a while, before getting up and editing some pics, loading online galleries, and organising print orders. At 4am I crashed back into bed, and at 7am, well... I didn't want to get up. But it was nice knowing I could tick off some boxes. I just have to stay focused and get the work done.

Liam's birthday party is on this weekend, so we are busy, busy preparing for that. Hopefully it will be a great day and the kids will all have a ball. Not much more you can ask for than that.

Today I had my first acupuncture! Geez it was weird. Brett knew I wouldn't go if he left it up to me, so he booked the appointment, picked me up, drove me there, sat with me while they did it and drove me home LOL. It wasn't bad at all. I didn't feel any of the needles go in, and only a second or two of discomfort on two of them as they tweaked them into the right spot. The other two I never felt at all. I only know one was in my toe because he told me, and the other in my wrist because I could see it. Once they were all in, they turned out the lights, and left me to relax with some soft music alone, and Brett took Ethan out for a walk down the street. Ethan was very worried about leaving me. He kept telling me "but you'll cry". Poor little darling was so worried about me, seeing those needles in me. At least I was able to reasure him that it was all ok, it didn't hurt and it was special medicine to make my tummy better. Sweet little darling he is. Straight afterwards I didn't feel much different (I had it for my pelvis issues), but when I got home, I sat in a chair and crossed my legs and then I looked down and thought OMG I haven't been able to cross my legs for a month! LOL There's definatly a lot more mobility, and no where near the pain... infact I really haven't had any pelvic pain at all since. Weird, amazing experience, but one I'll be doing again for sure. Very much worth it.

OK, was going to say I'm off for an early night, but it's already 10.40, so it's not really going to be that early.

can I just have a couple more hours

2008-10-27T22:22:00.002+11:00

in each day? Like... oh, 24 extra? I have 60hrs of work to get through this week.

Yes 60. At least.

I have orders and paperwork everywhere. Some going, some comming, some still being designed.

And that's up until Friday, when it all starts again.

And I have no childcare.

And I'm supposed to be at a school excursion with Liam on Wednesday.

And Ethan's had a fever from Saturday mid day through till this morning. Generally around 40.4 - 40.8.

And so he hasn't slept all weekend.

And neither have I.

He has a virus.

Liam's home sick too.

He has conjuncivitis.

He's going back to school tomorrow.

I have to go to school during the day to put the drops in his eyes still.

I have a 7th birthday party to plan, for SUNDAY.

That's less than 6 days away!

I still have not done the grocery shopping that should have been done last Thursday.

I have SIX loads of clean washing folded in my family room, waiting to be put away.

Did I mention I'm getting sick?

Are you surprised?

I'm feeling just a little overwhelmed.

Just trying to keep on treading water. Christmas will be here soon and then I can rest... for a few weeks. And then I'll be bussier than I've ever been in my life.

But my tax is done! I can tick that one off the list!

I am blessed I can work from home (even though it's a heck of a lot more hours than most people realise).

That I've NEVER been short of work from the day I left my last job.

That I've found a job that I love, that works for me, for our family and for our financial needs.

I love that I don't have to call in sick, make up time, feel guilty about letting down a boss, or leave my kids when they are sick (ok I do make up the time, just at 2am nowdays).

I'm incredibly blessed to have access to medical help and medications when they are sick.

I'm so thankful that I can make them feel so much better, but snuggling with them and reading a story (even if the washing doesn't get put away).

We have clean clothes to wear each day (even if they never made it into draws).

That I've been a mumma for almost SEVEN years! (SEVEN? How did that happen?) And every single day of the past seven years there's been a moment that I've laughed, smiled to myself, giggled or had my heart warmed, just with the thought of my beautiful boys).

I'm thankful I got such a placid, tolerant, caring and forgiving boy to be my first born, to learn how to be a mumma to, who unfortunatly I'm sure I make far too many mistakes with... but he's always forgiving and puts up with me :)

I'm blessed with friends and family to fill our house with in 6 days, to celebrate that beautiful little boy and all that he means to us, and all that he has bought into our home for the past 7 years (not including the dirt!)

We have food in the pantry (not much, but some) and money in the bank. We have shops nearby to buy more fresh nutritious food to fill our bellies.

I might be getting sick, but it will pass. I've been very blessed with my health.

We have all that we NEED and so much more.

Except maybe sleep. Could do with some more sleep. With that I'm off to bed. I can't see straight to edit any more pics tonight anyway. And my girl needs me to sleep so she can grow.

2008-10-22T21:32:00.007+11:00

S'pose I should update.

All is going well, just REALLY busy, and totally exhausted by night time (blog time), and keep putting it off for 'another day'.

So, whats been happening. Well three weeks ago I owned four pink coffee mugs, and for work purposes a pink backdrop, tub and blanket..... now I own a lot more pink stuff. A lot of our friends have finished/finishing having their last bubs so we've been handed so many boxes of pink things. I've been slowley sorting through them all. I've done a big clean out of boys clothes, but still kept a box of my absolute faves - just in case ;)

She's growing well (spot on with measurments), kicking lots (just copped a big one right then!) Brett and Liam have felt them, but Ethan hasn't really yet. The boys love my belly and constantly come up and stroke it and ask questions or tell me things about our baby. It's all very sweet. Ethan's finally getting it that the baby is in my BELLY not my boobs. LOL He's so, so cute, and it's just beautiful to see him experience this. Especially when I think he came very close to never getting that oportunity (after the last two miscarriages I swore I was done and not going through that again... but time heals, and all those cute bubba's comming in to have their photos taken didn't hurt either).

Work is very busy, which is good, but getting hard too. I intended to only do one shoot a week up until Christmas, but I find myself doing three. I have a problem saying no I think LOL. My pelvis is starting to play up, and has been since 19 weeks. I'm doing all the things I'm supposed to do to just try and keep it together and keep the bone/cartlidge from actually breaking again. Hopefully I can just get through until Christmas.

Liam lost another tooth. HIS right hand side bottom (next one out from the centre two - should find out the correct name for them one day.

Brett took the boys away camping last weekend. It was a bit of a spur of the moment trip, and I had work on, so I stayed home and they had a boys weekend away. They had a ball. Came home so filthy I made them have a bath before they could touch/do/look at anything LOL But that's the fun of camping hey. They went over just past Venus Bay, where we went at New Year. Saturday's weather was just beautiful which was great for them, being right on the beach.

Had to catch ups with photographer friends in the past two weeks. One down here in Mornington, and the other in Eltham. This is Kylie's sweet little princess Murphy. She was a whole lot easier to chase than my boys. One of whom ended up in a lake! The other of whom thankfully pulled him out! LOL It was quite funny really. The lake was covered with green vegetation over the surface and Ethan was running through the grass and it just looked like more grass so he just kept on running....

Glad I bought him some spare clothes!

What else.... a belly pic? I have one here somewhere. Let me find one.
Making lunch. What else does a preggie gal think about :) Well hey - I think about food non stop, pregnant or not. (for those who haven't seen me for a while - I grew my hair. Stupid move. It sucks and I need it cut off again)

The lunch. I was craving ham... so had to toast it to make it safe. Yummo with a bit of cheese and some grape tomatoes (best tomatoes ever).

Probably more I inteded to record, but too tired to think straight now and need bed.

Marni, your gallery will be up tomorrow.

Girls night in scrapping night this Saturday!

from the mouthes of babes

2008-10-05T15:12:00.002+11:00

[firstly, thanks for all your congrats and well wishes for our little one!]

We were invited to an Oxfam fundraising event on Friday night, a Hypnotism show. Brett (being the shy person he is - NOT) went up on stage and was hypnotised. FUNNY. OMG I don't think I have laughed so much for quite a while. Anyway, as I also had sessions on Saturday the boys had a sleep over at Brett's parents. Sally bought Hannah over for a play with the boys, and Liam came out with the funniest quote that I just have to record.

Liam and Ethan were sitting on the mat playing with a game. Hannah was jumping onto Ethan's back, pulling him and cuddling him etc. He kept telling her not to, and then Liam pipes up with (in a very tolerent but informative tone):

"Get used to it Ethan, cos we're getting a GIRL and she's not just going to be there for an hour, she's going to be there FOREVER!"

bwahahahahahahaaaaa!

So you want to know?

2008-10-01T16:47:00.002+10:00

Are you sure you want to know?

Sure?

OK, well I'm going to tell, so if you don't want to know, look away!

Someone told me if you have two same sex children, you have a 75% chance of the third being the same sex.

Once, many years ago, before kids, someone did that ring thing on me. You know, you do it over the wrist and it tells you what you WILL have. It came up with 6 boys and I made them stop. This is baby number 7 for us.

I was as SICK as SICK can be with the boys. I threw up every day until 36 weeks with Liam, and until 22 weeks with Ethan. I've only been sick a few times with this bub.

I had a boys name in mind, but couldn't think of a girls name.

My 'feeling' was boy #3... but I'm usually always wrong with these things.

So, I really had no clue.

But (have I stretched this out long enough yet?)

It's

a

(look away if you don't want to know!)

GIRL!

I'm not sure I know what to do with girls though, and I definatly need lessons in pink. (I don't like pink, but I'm sure it will grow on me).

Hello again little one :)

2008-09-30T13:15:00.002+10:00

So you're the one bouncing around inside like the next olympic gymnist and causing me all this heartburn. Lucky you're cute! Look at that little face. Awwww. Lots of kicking and movement going on during the scan. In this pic you're rubbing your eyes. You jumped about so much we almost didn't get to find out whether you're a boy or a girl... but eventually we did ;)

Want to know? What do you think?

ALSO: I'm having a crop night on Saturday October 25th for 'Girls Night In'. The more the merrier, let me know if you're free that night and can make it.

just for a bit of colour

2008-09-18T14:39:00.005+10:00

I was at my mums a few days ago and she asked me for some updated photos to put on the wall in the playroom there. I had to tell her that I don't think I've even taken a photo of my own kids in about 3mths! HOW BAD IS THAT! And I'm going scrapping this weekend, so somehow I'm going to have to dig up some photos (or scrap some client pics LOL). So, I have no personal photos to add - although Liam did take a 16 week belly shot of me a while ago. So I thought I'd scan a few of the layouts I've done since I last uploaded any layouts - am I slack or what! No pics or layouts, what a boring blog. Anyway, moving on. Here's a few recent (hahhaaaaaa! NOT!) layouts :)

I had a bubba checkup again yesterday. All's good although the HB was a bit tricky to find. I was pretty sure all was ok, as I'm getting lots of movement (love that!!), but everytime my midwife tried to find the heartbeat all she kept comming up with was my heartbeat. She kept looking at me saying "don't worry, it will be here", then fiddling around for a bit longer, then "really, don't worry, it will be here somewhere" LOL Eventually we got it :) They thought my racing heart stuff could be associated with low iron levels, but they're good. So it's a just put up with it kind of thing. Hopefully it goes soon. Appart from that I feel good. No pelvis probs yet, and Sally, my pilates instructer is one mean woman! In a nice way of course. But geez I'm going to have muscles on my muscles by the time she's finished with me!!

It's beginning to look like a baby is comming to our house. The basinette and cot have both arrived back (well new cot cos I gave my old one away - but I never really did like it ;) ) Boys are super excited. Can't decide whether they want a baby brother or sister. One day it's a sister, the next it's a brother. Seriously, even if it is a girl, she's not going to be a girly girl, with two older brothers to copy :)

Well we're walking to school (looks like rain but hopefully it holds off) so must get going :)

14-15 weeks

2008-09-04T18:25:00.004+10:00

* Gosh that virus was a shocker that triggered off a few other issues. Spent 3 days with my heart racing. Resting heart rate was between 116-120 most of the time. Didn't sleep for about 5 nights. Apparently it's hormone related. I tell you what... give me back the all day vomiting! Anyway, seems to have settled down now and will hopefully stay that way.

* As a result of being so sick I've fallen a bit behind with work, but I am getting there. Thanks for being so patient. Last week I had 7 spots left before Christmas, I now have 3... and enquiries from 6 others so far. I'd love to take on more, but I am just not going to risk this little bub by doing too much.

* Went to Pilates again.

* The road opened up down the bottom of our street, so now we can walk to school (and doesn't my butt know about that! Why did we decided to build on TOP of a hill?) The walk to school is beautiful though. We go down the street, into a valley, along the creek which is full of ducks, over the bridge and up the other hill. Thank goodness Ethan has a handle on his bike for pushing up the hill again.

* Ethan's enrollment for kinder. He would have LOVED to have stayed and played. Sorry buddy, we couldn't today :(

* Swimming lessons for both boys. Both doing GREAT. Ethan's even doing 5 kicks with his face in the water! That's HUGE for him, who up until a month or so ago screamed his head off if you washed his hair. He just adores his teacher Jody, and the other kids in his class. Really looks forward to it each week. Liam's doing great. He's in the big pool, doing great. Always loves swimming.

* Today we discovered a new park! Ethan had a ball. We're going back with Liam soon

* Letter land parade at school tomorrow for Liam. He's going as Red Robot, as I think majority of the kids in his class are. (all boys class, so no female characters in his room)

* Off to Frankston tonight to take some night photos with MPCC. Should be fun. Better go rug up and get ready.

13 - 14weeks

2008-08-27T11:49:00.005+10:00

* Came down with a shocker of a virus - chest/cough thing

* Little bit of morning sickness - still nothing like with the boys and bought on more by the virus I think.

* Pilates

* Ethan swimming

* Play at the new park with swimming friends

* Amanda and Trinity popped in for a cuppa

* Shopped for new bathers

* Picked up referal

* Booked next scan

* Baked banana bread - yummy!

* Received 2nd round offer for kinder for Ethan. Yay, we thought he'd missed out by 3 places :(

* Skipped music as I felt too sick and didn't want to pass on my virus to anyone else.

* Photographed Alexandra - gorgeous cutie.

* Celebrated dad's (Pa's) birthday

Babies, babies, babies

2008-08-25T11:19:00.008+10:00

* Photographed Hunter and his new baby sister Katie - how cute is she!

* Had my 12 weeks scan. All good :)

* Pilates - attempting to keep my pelvis together this pregnancy

* Photographed Narelle's baby girl Matise (photos to come)

* Doc appt - all good

* Music with Ethan

* Booked in at hospital

* Shopped for maternity clothes - huge, obviously preggie belly now :)

* Cleaned out my wardrobe and packed up all my jeans until next year

* Shopped for birthday presents

* Reading at school

* Big Russ' birthday bash

* Photographed 10mth twins and 3yo cutie boy (all very yummy... pics to come still)

* Photographed baby Angus - another very yummy one.

* Birthday party for my nephew Will, and also caught up with my brother and sister to exchange their birthday pressies (my sister is the day before Will's birthday)

* Hoping to slow down a bit this next week!

hello there little one :)

2008-08-18T22:25:00.002+10:00

It's been a long emotion filled road. Of course it's been HAPPY, but it's also been SO, SO sad and scary. And the waiting. Lots of waiting. It's taken a long time just to get here. Pregnancy and I don't go together very well at all and have a pretty bad track record really. We've had weeks of scans and Beta tracking. We lost one of our little twins, but today we got a pretty good 'all clear' that this little one is not only still hanging on in there, but growing nicely, making perfect progress since our last set of scans and has a great strong HB. And we are happy, happy, happy. I feel like I can finally relax and enjoy our bubba number three, who is due to join our family late Feb 2009.

Such a big, huge, MASSIVE thankyou to you sweet girls who have stressed and worried just as much as me. You've been a wonderful support, constantly checking in on me. I think you remembered all my appointments better than I did LOL. And now girls... you can blab ;) xx

Life is good :)

School holidays

2008-07-10T17:03:00.002+10:00

Very briefly, for just a few minutes, the sun was shining. These school holidays have been SO cold! Heaps of the stuff we had planned to reschedule and head inside instead. We've been swimming a few times (indoors of course!), played lots of games, made cubbies, baked lots of yummy things, read a ton of books and watched Ben10 too many times to think about. But were having fun and relaxing, and sleeping in. My boys even let me sleep in till 10am twice this week! Next week's going to be hard though. Getting up and back into the school routine again.

Well it's been a while...

2008-06-27T16:49:00.004+10:00

But we are still here :)

Today was the last day of school for term #2, and so now WE'RE ON HOLIDAYS. Yippeeeee. I get to have my munchkins around me for a whole two weeks. We have lots of fun stuff planned, which will probably mean I'll be taking pics and wanting to upload them here, so I'd best get a catch up post done and load some pics that have been waiting a long time.

So what have we been up to. The preps at Liam's school had a tree plant at the Briars (yep my fave place). Ethan and I went along, helped plant some trees, and tag them with Liam's name. And then followed up our hard work with a sausage sizzle and icepole. Yum :)

And there's been a little creating going on. And creating means mess doesn't it?
My boy and I have now been together for 13 years. I like this pic cos he looks old and I look younger - hahahaaaa. [sorry honey, but you can't look great in ALL pics - although you do still look mighty spunky xx]
And the boy lost a tooth! Well actually he's now lost three. First was his bottom right, then his bottom left, and now the top right. He's growing up!!

And boy2, just wanted to get his nugget (and bottle of water) infront of the camera too :) Look at hose curles. Ahhhh beautiful. Is he just the sweetest thing? Asleep on the couch... again.

Sweet? Or just plain old cheeky! I walked into the kitchen to find him up on the bench like that. Hows the look on his face. So proud, and "doing something wrong? Me?? No way!"

Clucky?

2008-05-31T14:48:00.002+10:00

If these two don't make you clucky, nothing will :)
Meet Madison and Elly. I have to say I was just a *teeensy* bit excited when their mumma called to book. They were oh so adorable, and their parents are just as beautiful. Ahhhhh have I said I love my job?
I couldn't decide which ones to upload so there are *lots* more over here.

Miss Sarah!!!

2008-05-26T20:38:00.003+10:00

Super quick edit, but just had to see what they came up like :)

Moving on

2008-05-16T13:50:00.002+10:00

Thanks so much to all of you beautiful people who have left me beautiful comments, email, text messages, mns (omg my msn went insane! lol) phone calls. You get the idea. I'm really appreciative and I'm feeling the love :) Mwah!! But I'm moving on, and don't want to sit and look at the crappies or bring them up anymore, so I'm hiding that post. On with happy times!!

Some beautiful little people I met recently. This is Bede. He's so delish. There are more of him over on the photoblog. Just love that expression in the second pic. Cracks me up every time I look at it.

And the beautiful Ros' DH and DS. We met up for a BIG family shoot. 6 adults, 5 kids. Yeah we were all crazy, but we had fun.
I've got a rather exciting weekend planned. Will 'perhaps' have some piccies to share comming up.

Boy2... again.

2008-05-04T23:15:00.002+10:00

It wasn't until I re-read a few posts ago where I mentioned that I had more pics from this shoot to upload. I'd forgotten all about them so had to hunt them out. I think Liam is due for some pics now though, Ethan can have a little rest :)

Giant lollypop, a stick and a puddle. What more could a little boy want. And yep, he went home pretty much nude with the heater cranked up. It was a fun end to the speed shoot.

In the tree tops

2008-05-04T22:41:00.001+10:00

Play time

2008-05-01T23:53:00.001+10:00

Pretty happy with these. cosidering I was not even looking through the camera for any of them :)

Tagged

2008-04-30T00:10:00.002+10:00

Ooops, forgot I got Tagged (all you who have tagged me before, will not be surprised by that!)
It's Tanya who tagged me this time :)

1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

My quirks...
1. I'm absolutly terrified of things that don't have legs. Give me a spider anyday (I'll squish it with a shoe), but there is no way I'll touch a worm or a slug or even those yuck jelly sack things at the beach. Ewwwww.
2. I'm left handed at everything except sport, and eating with a knife/fork. My Dad is the exact opposite.
3. I have a thing about how the washing is hung! (This was Tanya's answer but I'm keeping it cos I do too! Anyone can bring it in, but only I can put it out. And load the dishwasher too)
4. I am a bit of a routine freak in the mornings. I have my routines all written out, and I even use a timer to make sure I stay on track if I'm busy. By dinner time it's pretty much all gone out the window.
5. I wore perfume every day up until the day Liam was born. I almost never wear it now.
6. I loooooove food. Cheeses, and chocolates would be top of the list. The only things I don't like are rockmelon and I really have to be in the mood for icecream (and it has to be the good stuff). Thankfully I got mums metabolism (although it's starting to catch up a bit more now).

I'm tagging..
Sarah M
Jane F
Megan S
Nic W
Cass K
Connie H

Little lick of colour.

2008-04-29T23:41:00.003+10:00

Not the greatest expressions, but this entire shoot, including the red chair pics from the previous post, and a few more to come in the next post, were all done in under half an hour. And that includes strapping two kids into the car and driving to two locations. It was freezing, and in the end the boys ended up soaked... so this will do. I was actually playing with the overcast conditions and colour, so I wasn't too fussed about expressions - they'll do :)

Still surounded by sickies. I AM NOT GOING TO GET IT! I'm on the Olive Leaf Extract, and that had want to work, cos it tastes disgusting!! And some other superjuice thing, and aiming to get lots of sleep. Can not be sick for Saturday!! I'm meeting someone a bit spesh on Saturday ;)

Seems I am meant to clean up my house big time before then too. Last night Brett decided to fill the spa and run disinfectant through it so that the jets all get a clean out. Works well, but after emptying it he didn't actually clean it out, so this morning I got a nice surprise and ended up spending a good chunk of the morning cleaning up the mess. Then after cleaning up breaky and taking Liam to school - I'd left Ethan at home with Brett - I hear Brett call out from the kitchen "what the heck has happened in the pantry?!!" Thinking Ethan probably got into some bickies or something and left crumbs everywhere I went to inspect. I have to say I was quite surprised to find my walk in pantry *covered* (totally covered) with red splashes. A FULL bottle of pizza sauce EXPLODED!! OMG the mess! I just had to laugh, and then I ended up in total hysterics over it. Then I had to clean it. By the time I'd finished the first shelf I was over it. I have a pretty big pantry, it was a big job. Every shelf, everything on everyshelf, the floor, the inside of the doors, the walls, the 9ft ceiling... EVERYTHING was covered and needed to be scrubbed down.

So... my bathroom and kitchen are now nice and clean. Wonder what room God would like me to clean tomorrow :)

"And Raffie too"

2008-04-28T14:17:00.002+10:00

Was itching to take some piccies. It was very dull and grey, but at least the rain stopped for a little while. ALL the boys here are sick :( I ended up with all of them in our room last night and I was trying not to breathe!!

Oh and yep, I gave the blog a bit of a facelift. Getting into the Winter groove. I love winter :)

Another gorgeous family.

2008-04-26T12:21:00.002+10:00

I got to spend the morning at the beach with this beautiful family recently. Had lots of fun. There are more over here.

Cooper

2008-04-21T23:12:00.002+10:00

Work has been busy, busy, busy as usual. I never dreamed I'd be this busy, and I am so greatful! I got to spend the morning with this gorgoues family down at the beach a few weeks ago. It was really overcast, but it made for nice light :) Here's a little peek at a few from just one of my recent shoots. Isn't he adorable. I love that soft blonde toddler hair. Reminds me of Liam's (once upon a time).

Searching for shells

2008-04-15T22:42:00.001+10:00

Has gone a bit funky in the resize. It's clear IRL

Yummy

2008-04-14T00:21:00.003+10:00

While the oven is not finished yet, it needed to be burnt in... so we decided to pop a pizza (or four) in there too. Say it with me {yummy!}
Didn't take long to attract the neighbours.
now just to finish the oven.

Lots more...

2008-04-11T00:20:00.004+10:00

Whoops, just posted this on the wrong blog LOL Oh the problems of having too many blogs.

There are a ton more over here. I couldn't decide which ones to upload.

Lauren & Cam - Sneak peek

2008-04-08T23:24:00.005+10:00

(our gorgeous and very good friends)
A few of the formal ones:

Almost half way through. The fun ones are still to come :)

I think I'm beginning to like this wedding stuff after all!

Love you guys. xx

Sunday

2008-04-07T00:00:00.003+10:00

We went into the Garden Show today. Well OMG do big crowds/heavy traffic/lack of parking bring out the VERY WORST in people!! We had our carpark snatched not once, but twice. First time we were sitting there indicating when two old dotts in a little black car snapped up the inside of us and took the park. Brett quite politely said 'excuse me I was going in there' and old dott (bag) #1 just looked at him and said 'no I am' and did. Rude b!@#$. Second time we spoke to a girl who was leaving and had her park all teed up. It was one of those in the centre of the road where you can come in from either side. We were infront of her, so whipped around the back so we could drive straight in after she came out. Sat there indicating and waiting while she unpacked everything and got in her car and then as she started to drive out this woman stood in the carpark to block us, while her husband came in from the other side. Brett's window was still open and she came up to the car SCREAMING at him that "we've been waiting for this park" and would not let him get a word in. Her husband just nudged his car in further and further. Full on psyco chick.... (I have her pic LOL) Hope they got tickets. We eventually found a park and had quite a nice day. Pitty rude people had a chance to leave their mark on it though. Grrrrrr.

[raspberry and white choc muffins]

2008-04-05T23:15:00.002+11:00

YUMM. I didn't get to take a pic of the finished thing... they disapeared as soon as they were half cool enough to touch. Will have to make some more. Ethan was at childcare so Liam helped me bake [and clean the dishes ;) ]

Yup, he likes his mummas cakes - heheehehehe.

And a special one for Leonna... for the coloured walls in the previous pic you need to head here. Recognise this place?? These were taken on our mega photoshoot day with Connie and Jorja. These poor kids were put through the wringer with photos. It was such a hot day, and they stuck it out and did so great location after location after location. This was the last spot and geez did Connie and I have to work HARD to get some half decent pics out of them here. How cute are miss J's messy-buns. Hahaha, I could just gobble her up. Ethan is doing a runner with one of my fingerpuppets.

I did a shoot on the beach this morning for a gorgeous little family. Then Ange and I headed up to Ikea. Ange got lots... I got a few things. We still managed to fill Brett's car (all by ourselves... Brett still holds the record for the amount of stuff he got in there, but we did well).

Ange had to deck out her SALON. She's opening her very own hair salon this week. Whoooo hoooo. If you want a contact for a great hairdresser in Mt Martha, let me know :)

OK. less chatter, more photos. Lots of photos of late.

[ethan 3yrs]

2008-04-04T14:07:00.003+11:00

[roley poley boy]

2008-04-03T22:00:00.003+11:00

Obviously not taken today. Goodbye Summer :(

(just found these tonight while going through some older files... as in Feb - not that old)

Also meant to mention that Sal asked me to contribute some photo tips every month to the Scrap of Faith blog. I've just done the first one. Hope it's helpful. It's hard knowing where to 'start'.

Little bit of work stuff

2008-04-02T10:30:00.003+11:00

On the topic of that canvas... This is Flynn. His mumma loved the photo of Ethan that I used on the canvas and so we re-created it. Isn't he just precious.

And a few more from his shoot. There are more of Flynn, as well as lots more recent shoots over here.

He was a fussing a little until we popped him in here, and immediatly he just settled down. It's so snuggly and cozy. I'd happily curl up in there too... but I wouldn't be anywhere near as cute :P

Quick sneak peek

2008-04-01T15:28:00.003+11:00

I've been promising Connie a sneak peek of my artmount storyboard I had made up so I seeing as I FINALLY (it's been a while LOL) got around to photographing it etc I thought I'd give the rest of you a peek too. It's in a hard spot to get to to photograph it well, and ignore the colour blah, blah, blah (you know I can take ok pics when I need to ;) )

So this is my hallway... just after my enterence. Would you still call it an enterence hall? I don't know. Anyway, this is the place I dump the school bags etc. and that there on the wall, is my precious big boy and his pics of him fishing at the creek. (and some orders waiting to go out) Better view of the pics. Those pics are 12" high, the board is 20"x40"
And fresh from the US... my gallery wrap canvas. I picked it up this morning from the post office. I AM SO HAPPY WITH THIS!!! I know the pic won't do it justice, because I really had no clue just how good it would look until I opened the box. It's awsome. I love it :) Got this one done as my sample for work.

The before and afters :) Three years later he looks like this. You can just hear him too huh. Look at him LOL He's loud alright :) Cracks me up.

Two little ducks

2008-04-01T09:42:00.002+11:00

Just having a play while my boy was in the tub. Too lazy to go get the flash, so excuse the shocking lighting. He likes the bath :)

[cuddles and books]

2008-03-29T18:33:00.003+11:00

Still coughing. Still sore. Still crying lots. Still can't sleep. Still doesn't want to take his medi. Still doesn't want mumma out of sight. At least his troubles can be soothed with a cuddle and a story. Lots of stories. Even more cuddles. And the odd icepole doesn't go down too bad either.

One more day closer to being better.

[silly sausage]

2008-03-28T15:42:00.002+11:00

He's sick, sick, sick right now. Really nasty chesty thing. He hurts. He can't sleep. He just wants to be cuddled. He's crying a lot. But he still managed a little funny fit. And he's still so super cute. [and yes, he needs a bit of a haircut]

[lollypop love]

2008-03-28T15:38:00.001+11:00

Couple more piccies.

2008-03-27T22:35:00.002+11:00

Must have been bitten buy the blog bug. Updating again.

Sunset on Good Friday (Rather appropriate hey). Taken from our deck.

And some happy snaps of the boys being boys. Cheeky little monkeys that they are. They're just delish, and I love them to pieces.

I just LOVE the pure glee on Ethan's face as Liam chases him! He was laughing so hard (and so was I)

Little Liam?

2008-03-27T15:55:00.004+11:00

Not too sure if we'll be able to call him that now?

ETA: He does look like he has 'tude here, but really he was being really helpful and nice LOL I asked him to stand next to the wall and he said "like this?" and pulled out this pose! I love it :) I think the look goes well with the tatt, which is obviously a fake one. He, Brett and Alica got almost matching ones at the show the other day. I may be biased, but he's a bit of a spunk.

Raindrops.

2008-03-23T12:09:00.001+11:00

Red Hill Show

2008-03-23T11:59:00.003+11:00

Kids had a blast. We were all so exhausted by the end. Ran into lots of people we know! Here are some piccies. Our neighbours Angie and Alica came with us. Alica, Brett and Liam all got fake tattoos sprayed on. Brett loves his. Ugh, rolling eyes. I'm not a fan of tatts, but it's all for fun. Need to add a piccie of Brett and Liam with theirs.

On the roads at Easter

2008-03-22T10:12:00.002+11:00

We all know what a dangerous time it is to be on the roads at Easter. Please take care if you are travelling, and if you have small kiddos like us, check this out!

http://isabelle-broadhead.memory-of.com/About.aspx

I know we get lazy with the car seats. We are 'supposed' to use Ethan's baby type car seat in my car with Liam in a large booster. But then in Brett's car, to save undoing the babyseat all the time, we generally use the large booster for Ethan, and put Liam in a lap type booster. I won't be doing that anymore. Today we are off to Red Hill Show, if I can get hubby out of bed, but I'll be switching over those carseats before we go! I know I am a bit freaky about car safety and I WILL NOT let my kids ride in the front seat, regardless of who else is 'allowed' to (Liam always see's kids from school/kinder travelling in the front and gets anoyed that he's not allowed.

Must go get ready. The JW's are out in force this morning!!

I'm an auntie again!!

2008-03-21T12:30:00.002+11:00

My brother and SIL had their sweet little baby yesterday. A little girl - Mia Grace. I LOVE her name. I actually borrowed a naming book from Sharnie when I was pregnant with Ethan, and every name in the book we liked had been marked by them, so I guess we have similar taste in names. She's a sweet little sister to Will and I just can not wait to meet her and have a cuddle... and of course take lots of pics!

Well I'm not sure how we got to 3/4 of the way through March already! Not sure where this year has gone, so just to wrap up the past few weeks.

Liam lost his first tooth! It was a bit wobbly, then he came running out of shool to meet me yelling excitedly "my tooth cracked!" I looked and it was doing the 'hanging my a thread' thing. eeeoooow. Later that night, in the bath, he lost it. Poppy helped there. The tooth fairy came, and that was interesting. Brett and I at 11pm at night, arguing over the tooth fairy's methods. In our house when I was little, we put the tooth under our pillow and in the morning there was money there. In Brett's house, you put the tooth in a glass of water in your room, and when you woke up there was money in the glass of water. Anyway.... she came, and that was so so exciting! Two days later he lost the other tooth. But when we went to put it out it was gone!!! I sent him off to brush his teeth, and thankfully I'd tucked the first one away safely for keepsakes, so I grabbed that and popped it in, telling him I'd found it.

He's loving school. Loving the all boys grade. Just slots straight in perfectly. He is a really easygoing kid though and has always made friends very easily. He's just started bringing home readers (I think they held the boys class off for longer, because all the other preps had theirs a lot earlier) and already he's doing really well. He loves reading his reader with me, and thinks he so clever to be able to read to Ethan (even if he's not technically reading, but remembering the story), and Ethan now things he can read too, of course. (Ethan thinks he's also 6). I am so glad that we held Liam back though. Seeing him at school, seeing the work he brings home, seeing his attitude towards work, seeing how he deals with tricky situations - he just would not have coped with it all last year. It's very funny to see him explain concepts such as sharing to Ethan using the 'You Can Do It' methods they use at school. It's hilarous to overhear his conversations. He's just grown up so much in the past few weeks.

He's just come down with yet another cold. Combine that with two missing teeth and his speech has kind of gone out the window. Need to get that referal for the adenoinds! I was told last year that his speechy at school was the same speechy at this school and she told me that she had him on her books and not to worry, that she'd pick him up again this year and he'd go straight in. Well, when I asked about it, I was told she left and no longer does it, so he's on the list to be assessed and again... because he's done two years of speech therapy, he's at the bottom of the list again. Geez it's frustrating. I know their are kids who are worse than him, but because we got off our butts and did something about it early he ends up being punished for it. Once you start with a speechy, they don't kick you out because you are 80% done, but if you are 80% done, it's SO hard to get in!! And last year he had a tendency to stutter (although he did not stutter once since the last day of kinder!) and this year he no longer has that, so he's no longer a 'high risk' child. Even though it's hard to understand him. I'm bummed that he got this cold over the school holidays because I'd really love them to see how hard it is to understand him when he's got a cold... and he gets a lot of colds. Well, I'll get that referal going anyway, and a new hearing test done again.

Ethan... he's as good as always. Typical 3yo, knows exactly what he wants and oh boy, don't try and change his mind or tell him NO. Geez can he throw a tanty when he wants to! But most of the time he's just delicious, gorgeous, cheeky and three. He's constantly comming out with new words and understanding concepts that just really surprise me. Today he was telling me over breakfast that he goes to .... (name of Liam's school), and I told him one day he will. Then he said, he does go to school because he wants two vitamins and if he goes to school then he can have two vitamins LOL. Liam gets two, Ethan gets one and a smartie. Makes me laugh how they put things together in their little minds.

Housewise... believe it or not, there are not really any projects going on right now! First time in what, almost 4 years!! Probably cos I have no money left at the moment to do any projects LOL.

Work wise. I've been busy reworking my pricelists, packaging, logos, samples etc. And am doing another wedding on Monday for a friend.

School holidays are here, and I had lots of fun stuff planned again, but now Liam is sick :( Hopefully he can get rid of that quickly. I'm feeling all inspired with my photography at the moment, but wanting to take it all in a different direction. I love having the kids around on the holidays and being able to practice and try out new things on them. Fun fun.

And of course it was CFK's last week. What an awsome day that was!! And what an awsome amount of money we were able to raise! Click on the Crop for Kids logo at the top to take you to the blog for updates. Thank you so much to everyone who participated to help us raise such a fantastic figure for such a great cause.

Crop for Kids

2008-03-11T11:17:00.002+11:00

There's not much time left before this FANSTASTIC event, but there is still time to get tickets! Please don't miss out. If you are thinking of comming grab some tickets ASAP It's going to be such a fantastic day, the prizes and goody bags are just unbelievable! You don't want to think "I wish I'd gone" when it's all over. Last years event was just fantastic, and this years is just going to be bigger and better. And.... of course we really want to be able to raise even more for the Royal Childrens Hospital.

To read more on the event, including what some of the brilliant prizes etc are (too many to post here!) check out www.cropforkids.blogspot.com and EMAIL OR CALL TO GET YOUR TICKETS!! Do it now, so that we can arrange to have you seated with your friends.

Come on... you know you want to!! :)

Sneeky peeks from the wedding...

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It's drizzled a bit, but in general the weather held off, and it was beautiful.

Not so great weather

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For photographing a wedding, outdoors, at a winery today. Nuff said :(

I'll leave you with a piccie of my sweet munchkin. There are a few more here

Tuesday 5th February

2008-02-06T16:11:00.006+11:00

(Ugh, does that pic bring back memories! Ouch!! Trying and trying to get that posterior baby to turn around. Boys huh, don't know which way is up, he was also breech until 2 days before he was born) This pic was about 7pm. Nine hours into it, four to go...

Skipped a few pics inbetween that and this LOL Not really for www viewing.
11.04pm he arrived. This was just minutes after. Brett was so shaky he couldn't get a clear pic. Cracks me up that I got it, when I was the one who had just gone through 12.5hrs of labour!

Then next day. The first time Liam saw his baby brother. His first words "the bubby come out."

Three years ago today:

My baby turns THREE today! What a little blessing he has been. He's a cheeky little monkey alright, but he's just a beautiful little boy and such a blessing.

When we went to Ikea the other week, he would not get out of the 'egg seat'. He quickly ate some lunch and then headed straight back to the seat to play in it while we finished off our lunches. (He was only a few metres from our table). We decided we'd get him one for his birthday pressie. He LOVES it!

We had chocolate cake after dinner. Just us (BKL&E)

He started swimming lessons today. He did enjoy it, but he WOULD NOT smile! Not once!

Liam's first day of school

2008-02-06T15:55:00.002+11:00

He's a preppy! I have to admit I was a bit nervous. He had no desire to go. Wasn't interested in the new shoes, or the new lunchbox. Didn't care that he could see some of his kinder friends at lunch time. Wasn't fussed that he'd get to see some of his pre-prep friends (five of them went to the same school, 2 in one class - Liam's, and 3 in another class), or have lots of new friends to meet. No matter what I tried to pep him up and help him look forward to it, nothing seemed to work. I was pretty much resigned to the fact that he'd cry, and then so would I.

He didn't start until 9.50 as they staggered their arrivals. We dropped Ethan off at childcare and L (his carer) made a big fuss of Liam and how wonderful he looked in his new uniform and even got him to pose for a photo. Then it was off to school. We met daddy at the gate and as we all started to walk in together I noticed Liam had dropped behind. I turned around and there he was, in tears with his hand over his mouth and nose. He stepped on a stick and it flicked up and whacked him in the nose. Gave him a blood nose. Poor thing! Of all the mornings, it had to happen on the first day?! We finally calmed him down and got to his classroom door. But he had blood on his nose, and didn't want anyone to see him like that, so I had to sneak into the classroom for a tissue to fix him up before he'd go in. I thought for sure he would have a meltdown. We got in and met his teacher. He hung his bag up and sat down at a table to do a puzzle and said "bye mummy and daddy". And that was it. We left, Brett went back to work. I went home, sat down to work.... and bawled my eyes out LOL

Went back to pick him up in the afternoon, and he came bounding out. Chatted non-stop the whole way home and bounced around all afternoon. Although he didn't say a lot, it was obvious that he had a good time. He said he made some new friends, but he can't remember their names yet. After picking him up we headed up to get Ethan, then stopped at Brett's work so Liam could tell him all about his day, and then one final stop at the shop for a celebratory icecream.

Some piccies of the little munchkin in his new uniform.

Ethan's THRID birthday party

2008-02-06T15:52:00.002+11:00

Bit late as usual. I've had some posts sitting in draft form, waiting for the piccies...

Sunday 3rd February we had Ethan's birthday party. He had a fantastic day. We didn't do a HUGE party like we usually do, just maily family. But still ended up with about 30 people. I wanted to buy a pinata as the kids had so much fun with the one mum bought for Christmas day. When I went to the party shop to get one, they were $50, and it was just a box, with tissue paper and a print out on it. You still have to fill it. So I decided to cheap it and make my own. Now I know you can make them from paper mache, but come one people, I don't even have time to keep my blog up to date, so the chances of finding time to do that? Let's not even go there. However, I did rummage up a box, some colouring sheets downloaded from the net, a little touch of photoshop to colour them in, and some scraps of scrapping paper and we were pretty much done. Just a cable tie and bit of rope and of course a ton of lollies and we were good to go. All up took less than 10 mins to put together. (seriously, I remembered to do it about 15 minutes before the party started!)

I did the cakes similar to the Elmo/Cookie Monster trial I did a few weeks ago, but decided to add in Oscar and Big Bird. I thought for sure Elmo would be the first to go, but it seems Oscar was most popular.

Ethy got all shy when we were singing happy birthday and snuggled into me. There you go Nattie, a pic of me. Two even. Top two are me and the Ethy bug, obviously. Bottom left is Brett and Amanda (you last saw Amanda in her wedding dress in October), and right side is Brett and my sister.

Someone asked how I got the cakes so bright... LOTS of food colouring.

So my baby boy is three :) Such a gorgeous little thing he is.

I've had lots of questions about lots of stuff too, and get emailed the same questions quite a bit, so I'll start adding some answers here very soon. I have two more drafted posts and then I'll the the Q&A, so if you want to ask anything leave me a comment or email. (And yes, how I get the colour in my pics is one of them ;) )

A blank post...

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so that I can come back and add the last 4 days of photos.

Need to keep up with exciting stuff that's happening around here. I will be back with the piccies.

Photo a day - 27th Jan

2008-02-02T23:14:00.001+11:00

Happy Birthday Chloe :)
Today I think we had our first official Fairy Party. Don't get much of that kind of stuff over here ;) Miss Chloe is three today (she's 10 days older than Ethan) and she's just become a big sister to Zara. Isn't she adorable!

Hows the cake! Good job Mags! xx

Photo a day - 26th Jan

2008-02-02T23:09:00.000+11:00

Happy Australia Day :)

We spent the day at Ikea. I can now officially say "I know my way there". That's big for me... It not only means leaving the SE suburbs, it's means driving in the city LOL. Got lots of yummys for photo stuff, which I'm sure will start to make an appearance soon.

Here's Ethan with his sparkler, celebrating Aussie Day.

Photo a day - 25th Jan

2008-02-02T23:05:00.000+11:00

I'm pretty sure he's not supposed to be fishing in the pond ;)

Photo a day - 24th Jan

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Toy story! I picked up these figurines in Target for 5 cents each. Love that!

Photo a day - 23rd Jan

2008-01-30T10:51:00.000+11:00

We met up with Connie, Keenan and Jorja at the beach for a play. You'd think about a million photos got taken... not many did actually LOL

Photo a day - 22nd Jan

2008-01-30T10:49:00.000+11:00

Early morning play at the park

Photo a day - 21st Jan

2008-01-30T10:47:00.000+11:00

His bed is finally in his room, after almost a year of musical beds, all beds are now back where they belong :)

Photo a day - 20th Jan

2008-01-25T14:48:00.000+11:00

What does a photographer do with grubby seamless? Let the kids draw on it :) I spread it out over the kitchen floor and helped draw a massive transformer on it for him, which he then coloured in.

Photo a day 19th Jan

2008-01-25T14:46:00.000+11:00

It felt so nice to wake up to rain. Made everything feel clean. I love rain. I remember playing in it with my umbrella when I was little. Ethy likes it just as much.

Photo a day - 18th Jan

2008-01-25T14:41:00.001+11:00

Boys will just find ways to invent some sort of thrill seeking machine! Well mine will anyway. Boy, were they moving. The second pic they realised I was in the doorway, but the first pic they didn't see me. They were racing back and forth around the decks. Brett called me to come see, so I knew I had to grab the camera. They were both taking it in turns to sit on the skateboard. By the time I got there I only got one shot before they decided to dump it and go back to dinking.

Photo a day - 17th Jan

2008-01-25T14:35:00.000+11:00

Best start the catch up!

I was so stoked to get these of him. It is SO hard these days to get a real happy smile from him on camera. He has an awsome smile, he lights up a room when he smiles, he's so cheeky and full of mischievious laughter. He's a really happy kid. He's always laughing and playing and giggling. But when I pull the camera out it's a totally different matter. Out comes the fake smiles and stiff shoulders. But these... these are him. These are getting printed big! LOL

Kind'a fell off the wagon

2008-01-22T23:56:00.000+11:00

We all got sick. I got it twice, lucky me. A yucko vomiting bug that everyone seems to have had. I've still taken pics, but fell behind with work and have to do that before I can play with my own pics. I will continue on with the photo a day, I will catch up, but not until I at least get this shoot done. So check back to see a rather large photo update very soon.

Photo a day - 15th and 16th Jan

2008-01-16T21:05:00.000+11:00

OK so all pics are from yesterday. While Liam was at my sisters Ethan and I went for a wonder down on the beach. Man that hill is a killer comming back up. Adding an almost 3YO to the weight, and it's a full blown workout! But it's worth it, cos I love this bit of beach.

Today, Liam is sick. It's the first day I haven't pulled out my camera, but I've worked hard on learning new stuff. Hardly moved away from the computer all day. Lots of reading, notes and experimenting.

Oh, and I bought a new lens yesterday :) Can't wait for it to arrive. So while I haven't actually taken a pic for today, I'll leave you with three storyboards to cover yesterday and today. That fair? I think so ;)

Photo a day - 14th Jan

2008-01-14T22:55:00.000+11:00

Today: They painted with their feet :)

Liam's at my sisters for a sleep over. Him and Aidan have not stopped asking for see each other, or have a sleep over so far these holidays.

Finally got my all clear from my doctor today. After 18 loooooong weeks, my blood is back to normal. Well almost, but good enough to not warrent further intervention. I'm happy with that! Thankyou to all of you beautiful girlies who have worried about me, emailed me, prayed for me, and even just let me bawl my eyes out on your shoulder through all of this. You all mean the world to me. Here is to new beginings for 2008.

Photo a day - 13th Jan

2008-01-14T10:15:00.000+11:00

He was outside riding his bike while daddy was cutting the grass. I was inside baking. He appeared at the door with a very sad face and his sleeve held up. He'd fallen off :( Nothing a Bart Simpson bandaid couldn't fix though, and of course a kiss from mumma.

What one has, the other has to have.

Photo a day -12th Jan

2008-01-13T14:13:00.000+11:00

Bit late again. Yesterday I worked, then in the afternoon did lots of cooking. Didn't get a chance to upload any pics last night, but at least it's here. Worked again today, the house looks like it's been broken into it's such a disgusting mess! Need to get on to that now, and will hopefully be back later with another piccie of the kiddos. Not great weather today for outdoors stuff :(

Photo a day - 11th Jan

2008-01-11T21:43:00.000+11:00

Today: He was at childcare. I didn't get a chance to get a pic until late as we went shopping. Liam bought an Optumus Prime toy with money from his moneybox. There is something so cute about seeing a little kid carry his moneybox into a toy store. He's happy. I picked up two good cookbooks. "4 ingredients", and "Deceptivly Delicious" all about hiding vegetables in the kids food. Something we need to do a bit of here. Once upon a time they were not fussy eaters. I always thought fussy eaters was a load of rubbish. You know how it goes, if they're hungry they'll eat. If you only give them vegies, they'll only eat vegies... yada, yada, yada. Then I actually HAD a child, who overnight, became a fussy eater. If they're hungry they'll scream. They'll scream till they fall asleep exhaused from screaming. Then they'll wake up, cos they're hungry, and if you only give them vegies they'll scream some more. If you want your sanity, you'll give them a bloomin vegemite sandwich! Well that's how it is in this house anyway. But now... I have Deceptivly Delicous. Not too sure how exactly you can hide spinach in chocolate fudge, but apparently you can... and although it sounds utterly gross, it does look delish.

Photo a day - 10th Jan

2008-01-10T22:07:00.000+11:00

Today: they kept cool any way they could! Slushy drinks and some splashin'. Two storyboards today. It's Liam's turn, but that pic of Eth "ooooh!-ing" when he realised his drink was slushy, were just too cute to miss.

Photo a day - 9th Jan

2008-01-10T09:44:00.001+11:00

Oops, forgot to load this up last night.
Today: Ethan played hide and seek in his Elmo tent.

Both boys have had fevers for the past three days. Our next door neighbour has just come down with chickenpox... so once again we are in isolation. This must be the 5th time Liam has been in contact with the pox, and he's never caught it. Ethan's been immunised for it (wasn't a standard immunisation when Liam was smaller), so if Eth gets it it should only be mild. Liam did have a few spots on him yesterday, but they didn't change all day, so I think they are bites from camping that I hadn't noticed. Had to go buy a stronger panadol. Was using a big bottle in just a few days. Thought the pharmacist must have thought I was addicted to it or something!

Photo a day - 8th Jan

2008-01-08T22:58:00.001+11:00

Can't believe I'm still doing this. Probably the longest I've ever stuck with it ;)

Today: He didn't get dressed all day!! My mum would be horrified. I just gotta laugh.

Photo a day - 7th Jan

2008-01-07T23:45:00.000+11:00

Today: they played on their bikes out the front.

Love those grubby little toes. They just spell summer. And I love them cos they're cute too.

I'm craving routine so much. It's lovely having Brett home, but I just can not follow my normal routine with him around. I have no clue why not. What difference should it make, but I just can not get my tooshy into gear. Tomorrow. Tomorrow I will. As I have said since we got home from camping. I also 'officially' started back at work today. Two shoots to get out from last year, before shooting another two this weekend... and pretty much booked up through Feb and into March at this point :)

Photo a day

2008-01-06T23:28:00.000+11:00

Today: We had a practice run for some birthday cakes for Ethan. Had an idea in my head, and wanted to see if it worked in real life ;)

And... we explored our neighbourhood. This is the creek at the end of our street. About time Liam made it into a pic hey. The reason for that is because he's been at nanny and poppy's for a few days. He went to spend the afternoon there, then called to ask if he could stay the night.... then called again to see if he could stay ANOTHER night. Oh, and don't we know he's home now ;) Lets just say both kiddies are tired and, well, bitchy LOL. So after them spending the majority of the morning trying to kill each other, I decided if we didn't get out of the house I was going to kill them both (tell me I don't need to tell you I'm kidding!) Anyway, they rode their bikes down the end of the street to the creek. While they played I sat under a tree. Ethan came an snuggled in my lap, so I knew it was time to get home. As soon as we walked in the door, Ethan crawled up onto the couch, asked for his blanket and a drink. I gave him the blanket but before I could even get the drink ready he was fast asleep. Poor mite, had been up all night with a high fever and was a bit sick this morning too. Therefore I've been up all night too. So with that I'll leave you with a few more piccies of the big boy (training wheel shot is the little boy) and head off to bed.

Photo a day

2008-01-06T00:06:00.000+11:00

Today: I pulled the decorations off the Christmas tree. Am still to actually 'put away' the tree.

And today is also Poppy's birthday! We went over to their house for dinner and cake of course. Look at him with all his precious grandkids helping him blow out his candles. Hannah looks quite confused by it all actually LOL, but she did love it. Following dinner Brett mentioned 'the old slide projector' and the next thing we knew we were all sat around the big screen laughing at pics of Brett and Sally as babies. So cute and funny. Here are a couple of shots that I snapped directly from the projector screen. They came out so clear. Anyway Megan mentioned after the camping post, how alike Brett and Ethan are. Here's a couple of piccies of Brett as a little tacker. He was cute back then too huh ;) Besides Brett having darker hair, they are pretty alike!

A photo a day?

2008-01-04T16:48:00.000+11:00

Should I try this again? Let's see how far I can get this time. I was going to start from the begining of the month, but seeing as I just uploaded a zillion holiday snaps, they can count as days 1,2 and 3. Here is day 4. Ethan, messing up my bed. I actually did a layout of him messing up my bed when he was just a bub. Back then he didn't dive off the bed head though! Really I should house train these boys, but just look at the pure joy on that last face. How can I tell him off? Ahhh I love my little munchkin... mischief and all.

We're baaaack :)

2008-01-04T12:52:00.000+11:00

And I have some snapshots to share (don't we all love seeing photos?) After resizing and uploading all the pics, I can't be bothered typing out a rundown. Will come back later and do it. We all had a wonderful time. We were over near Venus Bay. The piccies can tell the rest of the story.

Christmas rundown 2007

2007-12-27T18:03:00.000+11:00

Christmas eve the kiddos did the Reindeer food as usual, but this time Ethan joined in a bit more. I can hardly believe his piccies from last year he was wearing a bonds wondersuit! I couldn't get regular glitter so we had to go with some star shaped sequin type glitter. Looks good though and seemed to do the trick because....

Santa came! After staying up till 2am, (and even sneaking in after Santa had been to take a piccie of the tree ;) ) we were woken at 5.30am by Liam SCREAMING at our bedroom door "ETHAN'S GOT A NEW BIKE!". Brett and I staggered blurry eyed to the tree to see our precious boy discover his stash, and share in his excitement. He got just what 'he's always wanted', Cars racetrack, Bumble Bee Transformer and Ben 10 watch (Omnitrix) and a few other bits and pieces. Ethan woke at 7am, we know better than to wake him before he's ready (bit like his mumma LOL) His main pressie was a bike! I'm so glad Santa thought of this, as it will be so handy when we ride to school next year ;) Well I'll walk, but the boys will ride. Ethan's is a 2wheeler with training wheels, and a steerable handle, so I can hold the little daredevil back as he tries to bolt down the hill we live on. Benson got Watermelon, and seemed very pleased with that. That Santa beard thing in Ethan's mouth is a lolly pop.

We had both the Toland and Hewlett families here this year. The kids had such a great time. Everyone helped out, and it was just a very relaxing day. Piccies here are the cousins all opening their pressies. Bit of a five minute frenzy, but they were all so excited, who could blame them. My sister made that gorgeous gingerbread house, it even had stained glass windows from melted lollypops, and she also decorated the Christmas cake. If you need a decorated cake, let me know! She's ace :) Some cuppies I made. Chocolate cakes with mint icing. Mmmmm, yummy. Got the holly idea from Nat and the SoF girls, who are all cupcake OBSESSED at the moment LOL. And my SIL made pudding and reindeer chocolate crackles. They are so cute!

Mum bought around a pinata two days before, and Brett hung it from the pergola. THAT was fun. The kids had an absolute ball, the adults couldn't stop laughing, and the Daddy's were all coaching along their kiddo's like they were standing on the side of a sporting field. Lots of laughter. Will be doing this one for sure from now on. (Ignore Liam's black socks and shorts! He dressed himself, and I was too busy to worry about it)

I just had to take a piccie of my neice Bethany flaked out in my Dad's arms, and after everyone had left, Ethan was the same. Love the bottle hanging out of his mouth. He'd had a WHOPPER of a meltdown a little earlier. WHOPPER! Ask my neighbours LOL they actually called over the fence because they thought something was wrong! Just too much sugar, and too much excitment, and not enough sleep. A bath always fixes him up though. Water therapy ;)

I hope you all had a wonderful day with the people that you love! We are off camping in a few days, so may not be back online for a while. When I do get back I'm having a Stampin Up demo, so drop me an email if you want to come! Merry Christmas and all the very best for 2008!

Kate&Co - The way I see it

Just a quick update:

Surprise - She's here!!

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Pickles and Icecream anyone?

28weeks 5days

Mylanta - Myfriend

Wardrobe doors!

We made it through :)

Help!

The bug got me :(

can I just have a couple more hours

from the mouthes of babes

So you want to know?

Hello again little one :)

just for a bit of colour

14-15 weeks

13 - 14weeks

Babies, babies, babies

hello there little one :)

School holidays

Well it's been a while...

Clucky?

Miss Sarah!!!

Moving on

Boy2... again.

In the tree tops

Play time

Tagged

Little lick of colour.

"And Raffie too"

Another gorgeous family.

Cooper

Searching for shells

Yummy

Lots more...

Lauren & Cam - Sneak peek

Sunday

[raspberry and white choc muffins]

[ethan 3yrs]

[roley poley boy]

Little bit of work stuff

Quick sneak peek

Two little ducks

[cuddles and books]

[silly sausage]

[lollypop love]

Couple more piccies.

*Little* Liam?

Raindrops.

Red Hill Show

On the roads at Easter

I'm an auntie again!!

Crop for Kids

Sneeky peeks from the wedding...

Not so great weather

Tuesday 5th February

Liam's first day of school

Ethan's THRID birthday party

A blank post...

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Little Liam?