The day Aidan turned one!!!!!

I sometimes wonder where time goes, it only seems like yesterday that I was giving birth to my second child and just how special that first Birthday is to myself, David and to Aidan's big sister Amber! Its a time to celebrate the amazing changes that have happened at such a rapid rate to our little man in that oh so special first year and to see the amazing milestones that he has reached in such a small space of time! It has also been a year of great change with Amber completing her first year at school and finding where she now fits in to a family that was once three and is now four!

Being an eldest child myself I can appreciate how much can change when you don't have your parents sole attention every single second of the day. I think a first child spends the rest of there lives once a new sibling enters the household trying to achieve and keep there parents favour and attention from that day on ward! Not that this is a bad thing I guess unless of course jealous rears its ugly head, but I have to say Amber has adjusted beautifully and most of the time has a healthy love for her little brother(except of course when he touches her little ponies or tries to eat all her princess and barbie dolls little excersories lol, but that is another story!) and it makes me so proud when I see them cuddling and spending time together!

I have to admit the second time around the celebration was very low key compared to our first, I would hate to see what would happen if I had 6 children, the last child would be lucky if I remembered it was even their birthday lol! Thankfully at the age of one they don't really remember very much but I think a first birthday is for the parents in some way to say we made it through the first year and we still some how managed to pull a party together!!!!

We had two celebrations an intimate little party with family and friends which I am starting to realize that big is not necessiarily always beautiful and a very small celebration with just us and his Oma and Opa on the actual day! Both days went way to fast but they both went off with out drama or tears!

So my sweet little man I hope you can look back on this post and share in the lovely memories and joy that you brought us in your first year of life and just how very special and wonderful a life we now have thanks to you being part of it!

A big thank you to all our friends and family that helped us share and celebrate such a special day your presence made our little mans birthday an amazing one for all of us!

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY AIDAN (YES I KNOW IT TOOK YOUR MUMMY 5 MONTHS TO POST THIS AS YOUR BIRTHDAY WAS ON THE 28TH OF SEPTEMBER!, WE WERE JUST TO BUSY ENJOYING YOU TO WRITE THIS ALL DOWN UNTIL NOW!) Lucky mummy has a good memory most of the time lol!

All our love now and always Mummy, Daddy and Amber and all your family and friends xx!

I have been unwell!

Life is a funny creature, I had big plans while David was away in the Solomon Islands for work and I had many goals which sometimes make me wonder if I have rocks in my head for thinking that I would actually manage to achieve any of these goals with a five year old about to head back to school and a one year old..............well just being a one year old, but I am a list maker and it always gives me great satisfaction to cross things off my list even if that doesn't happen very often and well that is basically where I think that I keep going wrong as I put way to many things on those lists so when something unexpected happens which it always does my plans seem to come crashing down into a heap which is silly really cause that is life!

This sounds all very dramatic in the scheme of things and that is the funny thing about life I think we get sent these lessons in life to teach us to slow down and reevaluate what is truly important in life! I don't know if these lessons will stop me making lists but I am trying to slowly learn to actually listen to what my body is telling me, and basically it is telling me to slow down as I am no spring chicken any more and don't fuss about the little things! As low and behold with only a week into David being away I was struck down with another bout of guardia and then I pulled a muscle in my shoulders which has rendered me.................well basically useless and majorly frustrated. One of the things on my list was to blog every day so I can catch up with all the events that have happened since August that I have missed out on since life has got in the way (how rude of it lol!) and made what was a little job a now majorly impossible one oh and I forgot to add the number three bad thing that happened this week I got a flat tyre as I was getting Aidan in the car to pick up Amber from school just the other day, I am hoping and praying that that will be the end of my bad luck lol.....................I think I must have killed a china man or two lol!

But I can say that David will be back on Monday after three weeks away and that even though I got absolutely nothing done and that it drove me crazy laying around the house looking at the mess, I tryed to look the other way and rest and let my body try and heal itself, it hasn't exactly recovered very well, but I think it is hard to rest a shoulder with a one year old wanting you to pick them up all the time, but I have tried and the important thing is that I have learnt that when people reach out to help, let them, so even though my friends and my sister don't usually read this blog I want to send out a big thank you to Dot, Linda and to Jennifer without your love and support and basically picking up Amber from school in her first week back and for taking Aidan for the day to help me recover that with out you all I would be lost and well I think I would be one big crying mess on the floor, you guys saved my life this week and I only hope one day I will be able to return the favour!

I cannot complain though as my children have both been well and full of energy and we still managed to get Amber off to what is now her first year as a big girl in year one! Aidan keeps adding to his teeth, we had two surprise molars arrive over the last couple of weeks, and here I was waiting for his fourth bottom tooth to arrive......................I am still waiting lol as to my surprise the molars decided to arrive first!

But I am getting way ahead of myself, as I am still back in 2009 lol, lets hope it doesn't get any worse or I might be blogging about 2009 in well 2011 at the rate I am going!











So here is a couple of funny videos and a bit of a time capsule of 2009 with Aidan, Amber and Darcy getting down to Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies", yes it has been done before but I thought this was just too cute and quite giggle worthy imo lol! Ah children they are truly a breath of fresh air! Doesn't Amber look like an old granny on Darcy's scooter lol, I just love it!








I have to say goodbye also to mums sewing machine recently, I have never been a sewer and I was certainly not interested at school but something happened just before I had Aidan, I decided I needed to conquer and find something new that I could achieve that well didn't break the piggy bank and that made me happy, and sewing for some reason fit the bill which is very strange if you know me, so mum kindly lent me her sewing machine and well the rest is history, I am still learning and I haven't even looked at a pattern yet lol, so I can't say that my creations are ground breaking or anything but I get a joy from making and creating something from scratch and it is so lovely to find something that I can achieve that is tangible and semi useful that has not been destroyed by little hands lol, like the lovely task of trying to keep the house clean! The sewing machine has now made its way back to mum after just over 12 months and David decided I really should have my own machine, so I ended up with quite an early birthday present seeing my birthday is not until March but with how busy I have been I probably won't have much of a chance to touch it until then anyway lol! Thank you so much mum for the lend of your machine and for your inspiration and support with yet another one of your zany daughters ideas!





Yes shock horror the above is a photo of one of the first things I managed to sew, yes the skirt is a little dodgy brothers but it is just for play and Amber loves it which is a good thing with my new sewing machine she is probably going to get a truck load more of her mothers crazy creations and hopefully I manage to improve a little on the way too! I also made the fairy halo that Amber is wearing in another fit of inspiration lol! In the other photos I was showing Amber how to sew for a show and tell project for her at school isn't that a laugh talk about the blind leading the blind! My next project if I am successful and don't totally botch it up, is a rara skirt lol, I have found one that I adore that is made by the children's brand Room Seven so if I can achieve anything even close to that I will be a happy little mummy, oh well its good to have dreams isn't it lol!!!!













The above photo of the Room Seven Sammy skirt is thanks to My Little Darlings Boutique!


Well that is August nearly covered, I can hopefully move on to the next post of William, Makayla and Aidan and their 1st birthdays..............what do you mean they are nearly two lol!!!!!!!

And to anyone that makes lists, keep on keeping on as they do work sometimes I know I am going to keep plugging away at mine, and maybe just maybe one day I will succeed and finish just one of those lists.................now where was I, let me see, August check......................!

While you were sleeping!

There is something so magical and special when it comes to a sleeping child even when they are covered in food or stuck in a strange position and its not just the fact that the house is suddenly quite and at peace its that to a mother it is that special small amount of time in the day or night that you have to reflect and basically forgive for all the mischievous adventures that took place in the hours or minutes before slumber wove its magical spell upon them and sent them into sweet slumber, which isn't as gentle and natural as it should be in our house case in point with both my children falling asleep either while eating or on the run as they finally crash and burn when sleep final wins over!





They seem almost angelic and they would nearly get away with that facade if it wasn't for the tornado of toys and trail of mess left in their wake............but when you see their sweet innocent sleeping faces, well all that frustration just seems to melt away......................!

Thank you my gorgeous little ones for putting a smile on my face and a skip in my step, which is lucky cause I am now off to clean up the mess my little tornadoes just left for me just minutes ago.

Sleep peacefully my little angels, I couldn't imagine a more perfect life hugs and love forever your mummy xx!

A sad start to the new year!

I know to some people that a pet is just a pet and can't understand or sympathize with people that are grieving over a lost pet, so if you are one of those people please don't read on as I don't want to offend! I am typing this in advance as I know I won't be able to bring myself to type anything tomorrow and as I write tears are welling up in my eyes. Our pet dog snoopy who has been in my husband and my life for nearly 14 years will be heading for his last car journey tomorrow to the vets(a place he has always hated ever since he was a puppy and had meningitis!), and I know I am going to hate taking him this time as it will be his last trip and he just loves going for a drive in the car so it just seems cruel!

We have been hoping and praying every day that life would make that choice for us and that we wouldn't have to make that horrible decision to put him down but it just seems too cruel now as his heart just can't take much more. He finds it harder to enjoy himself with minor activities stretching his endurance and the medication he takes has turned him into a baby!

Snoopy was like my first child my first pet that was mine and mine alone and he went nearly everywhere with us, he was the loyalist and quirkiest pet I have ever had and also had a lot of spunk like most fox terriers and had a fondness for the postie and anyone who dared to trot down our garden path unannounced ankles, so I am sure some people will not miss him quite as much, but once you got to know you him it was basically impossible to get him off your lap!

I have never met a pet that was just desperate to go everywhere with us! I remember once when we had just moved up to Brisbane and we had decided while we were out we would make him be an outside pet so we created a high fence/gate out of wire and it was tall I can tell you, so anyway he was securely in the backyard and we started driving up the street in our Camry with the window down. We stopped at the red light at the top of our street which branched onto a main road and the next thing we know Snoopy was in our lap, he had somehow climbed over the fence and ran up the road and then jumped up the side of the car and through the open window, that is when we decided that maybe Snoopy should be an inside dog lol or risk being run over!

It makes me smile to think about the wonderful times we have had with him and he also helped me loss some of my baby weight after Amber was born as like most dogs walk was his favourite word! Leaving him behind when we went for a walk would have been unforgiveable!

Now water was something that he would happily let you leave him behind on, to say he hated it would be an understatment and it was only when we would wade to far out from the shore that he would have no choice but to dog paddle out to us so we wouldn't leave him behind.

When Amber came along we discovered that Snoopy was a little bit of an adventurist, he just adored going down the slippery slide. He loved going up and down a thousand times over and Amber thought it was just the best thing ever and we got such pleasure from watching both of them!


Good bye my baby and our best mate you were my first and I promise you will never be forgotten as you brought so much unconditional love and happiness into our lives and for that we are eternally grateful.












At 11.45pm today our baby passed away, rest in peace our sweet little boy I hope there are posties in heaven that you can chase love always Kylie, David, Amber and Aidan xx.

Book week at school!

This was one of the many events that were held in the last term of school after looking at all the photos I am now realising why I have had absolutely no time for anything else lol! At least it was alot of fun!

I had just a couple of days to come up with a jungle character or a character from a book and for once in my life I wanted to stay clear of any type of princesses mission complete yahhhhh! Mind you silly me I then had to quickly make something, it hasn't fallen apart yet so I guess that is a good sign lol!!!!

Amber loved dressing up for the day as a tiger quite fitting with all her poses I think..............grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Hey there hoopla the circus is in town!

Well I have to say that the title to this post sums up the last couple of months in the Nyssen household for the remaining part of 2009! I discovered just how crazy and insane life can be with a 5 year old finishing off her first year at school and all to quickly I am recalling what life is like with a one year old............................CRAZY INSANE..............that is what life has been like over the last three months.

So a big sorry to all those family members that have been coming back time after time to find nothing new! I am going to try extremely hard this year and that is my new year resolution to keep my blog up to date. Instead of one huge post I am going to try and post daily until I have caught up! So back to September 2009 we go I promise I won't ramble too much............ok who am I kidding it wouldn't be me if I didn't ramble!

Well as you can see by the photos Amber's amazing teachers tirelessly put together a circus performance for the whole school and it was pretty impressive for a class of 5 and six year olds. They had a wonderful time rehearsing and showing off there new talents to some proud parents and families and of course to all their peers!

I have been endlessly amazed and surprised at the love and endless effort that Amber's teachers Mrs.Argyris and Mrs.Bee have gone to throughout the year for our children, they have certainly set the bar at a very high level and I can't imagine the rest of her primary school experience topping this year!

Amber has emerged from her first year at school so confident and happy I am such a proud and happy mumma bear, I feel so fortunate that I was able to share in so much of this year with her, she is turning out to be such a beautiful young little lady on the outside and the in and for that I feel like the luckiest mother in the world!

All I can say is BRAVO AND ENCORE my little tight rope walker!!!













Amber trying out some moves at home after the circus!