Rainy Day Fun!

What do you do on a raining day? 

Build a car of course!

I know it looks like a house, but he wanted a car with a hard roof, - there is even a spoiler which you can't see here!

Who says boys can't pretend!

(Oh and PS... I made that blanket!)

049: busy and tiring but loving it

I got to sister/toddler/baby sit today! Yes I was on duty to look after them all today. I had a nice day just chillin with my sister and bossing her about (well, really only to not do things rather than to do things) and the kids had a great time too! She lovingly took some more blankets and sheets off my hands hence todays "gone" item.


Asher and Tia had fun "finger"painting although I think we were calling it "body" painting by the end!

They then had fun washing it off each other too!

Tonight I had a very proud moment when Asher pointed to my Audrey Hepburn bag and told me it was "pwitty"! Then he proceeded to count the small glittery stones on it and he counted up to 4 all on his own!!!

I am so grateful for my cheeky monkey! I mean how can you resist this face?

(note the draw of potatoes out in the background)

036: showers of love

I got to see my darling new nephew Hendrix, oh how sweet he is. There is nothing more delightful than a newborn babe sleeping in your arms. (Well I think so anyway -also good when you aren't the sleep deprived parent). But, I got to FINALLY pass on a few of Asher's boy baby clothes to my sister Jules for Hendrix. Some of the clothes Asher never got to wear as he was born in the middle of winter and in Melbourne so the little short sleeve numbers never saw light of day. There will be more hand-me-downs where they came from too!

Today Asher had a BIG sleep in and we went to Maccas for breakfast (english muffins) and met up with Katherine and her girls. Yes, I hear you - going to McDonalds isn't new for Asher BUT climbing to the top of the playground only to get stuck coming down between the 4th and 3rd floors and mummy coming to the rescue (Yes! I climbed all the way up inside!!!) was a new thing for Asher. Oh, and did I mention that we came back out using the slippery slide!! (Then silly me, offered to take Elara up in there too and on my way had to rescue Asher again! I will learn!)

I am grateful for lots of things today - 1. the play equipment at Maccas being large enough to fit me in easily. 2. being able to help friends again, 3. mum being able to help me out, 4. being able to see my sis and nephew, 5. the rain, plus much more! (Am thinking of making this about blessings too - cause that is what all of these things are!)

010: woo hoo made it to double figures

Ok, so as I got rid of a heap yesterday today I have gotten 2 major things out of my house BUT they are only on loan so technically they are gone from my house though! These are my baby bassinet (my sis is due with number 2 in a few short weeks) and also Asher has passed on his baby jumper/play centre to his good friend Ben who loves it!

I have been a bit slack in the creative things for Asher to do today - so this afternoon it was outside to play in his sand pit which yesterday got a good top up from excess from Elara & India's new sandpit! He let his pal Ben play in it too!

I am grateful for the love of my God and that I can rest in the fact that He is faithful and keeps his promises!

008: one week has passed already?!?

Today I moved a bag of plastic bags to where I could see them in the car so that next time I go shopping I can throw them in the plastic bag recycling bin. (That reminds me, I must put in my green bags into the car so I don't get more plastic ones.)

Asher went with Daddy this afternoon to his cousin's house whilst Daddy and Unc Josh watched the AFL grand final - and he got to have his first play in Belle's (his cousin)new jungle gym and beautiful new cubby house. (Which secretly I am so jealous of - it is gorgeous and even has a little white picket fence and barn doors! and it is high enough that both her daddy and Asher's daddy can both stand up in it - just, and they are both 6ft and above!) Nice work Aunty Dee!

Today I am grateful for answers to prayer for little things - I had a huge headache and Brad prayed for me and it left! Praise God! Also, I am grateful for spending time with girls from church who, whilst at a bridal shower for one of them really were uplifting to be around.

007: trash, trains and treasure

We had been out all day today from pretty much 9am to 5:30pm. Then I had my bookclub on tonight so didn't have time to really suss out something to throw out - BUT - thankfully because this month in bookclub we were all bringing a book to swap with someone else (just to mix it up) I was going through some books and found 3 to get rid of!! 1) a McDonalds toy book that never gets read and is just taking up space, 2) a calorie counter book that came with a magazine, which honestly I will NEVER use, even with good intentions, and 3) a book called "A Child is Born" which someone gave Brad before I had Asher, which is extremely graphic with pictures of babies being born, written in a time before women even thought to have bikini waxes (if you get my drift).

As I said, today we were out all day - I, along with my friend Alicia from "Notes from DownUnder" took our two little darlings for a long train ride into the city! The kids loved the train ride and particularly enjoyed the fact that they were so clever to be able to stand up and hold on to the yellow handles. We went to the State Library where they have a fantastic kids section for them to play with hands on things from reading books, playing house, exploring the window display and singing songs and then list goes on... With all these amazing things that we wanted to expose our cherubs to they both just picked one activity each and pretty much stuck with it. Sophie danced, whilst Asher played with a few cars on a little wooden carpark. (To Alicia's credit, Sophie also got a bit of craft done to!)

We then headed over to the museum to see the dinosaurs - a big hit with them both and then we had a little run around (the kids not us!) at Southbank. Very tuckered out!

I am so grateful for fun places to take kids, as I miss Melbourne and the different stuff to do there, finding little treasures in Brisbane takes some work but am slowly finding my way.

Spring Resolutions

I have just read my friends latest blog update and she has suggested that Spring be the time we make new resolutions, and I whole heartedly agree!!! (Nice one Katherine)

So, as challenged by her my new Spring Resolutions are...

1 - Garden more or maybe I should just say garden, as I don't do it now but I will - anyone who has seen our yard knows its needs some loving!

2 - Declutter (more) - I have started this but I need to do a full "Spring Clean". (HELP)

3 - Write to my friends both far and close - as in hand write not this typing thing - although if I had an old typewriter that would be fun too!~

4 - Get moving more! Ok well I would like to say here "Lose Weight" or "Exercise" but we all know that even the best intended resolutions (at any time of the year) to do these doesn't work. So I hereby declare I will become an outdoorsy person before Summer comes! (This includes walking places, going outside with Asher and using our QLD 3 World passes to go to Seaworld, MovieWorld and Wet'n'Wild more!

Ok, and as a side note - I will also try to be more patient with the uploading my photos on here... Next Time.

What's been happening...

We have done heaps over the last few months and much has happened. But I thought I would put a few pics up of our growing little man just showing how cute he is. He is not in his "Terrible Two's" but rather in his "Terrific (and sometimes trying) Two's".

He is so living up to his name of happy and blessed as he is both and he makes us happy and we are blessed to have him in our lives!

At the museum checking out the koala with mum.

Having fun with cousins!

Kids checking each other out.

(Below) One very happy boy!

Monday's With Katherine

Most people hate Mondays - but very rarely do I have a Monday I don't like!

How do I overcome this world wide problem?

Well, all you need is one REALLY great friend! In my case I have Katherine! We have been friends since it was originally cool to write "BF's 4 Eva"! Cause that is what we are!

We have a kind of unspoken rule that Monday's is OUR day - sometimes it doesn't alway pan out but generally it does. It helps too that we both have kids that play well together - so it doesn't matter if we go to her place or she comes to mine - we just let them run wild whilst we try and chat!

Yep, there is alot of love on Mondays for me! And I owe it all to you Katherine! Thanks!

(PS Asher talked about Katin's Bish all day today not just for the trip home - am thinking a fish in our house may be a good option!)