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Roses and frills!

I have been experimenting with photobucket and working out how to post onto my blog! Sorry everyone for the experiments! Its been fun though hugs Kylie xx.

My antique china doll!

Well not really, she might look like a young girl from the 1800's but she not quite that lady like lol! We were picking up my mothers day present from New Farm Park on Saturday and I decided to get the camera out quickly before it was dark. Not the best photos but one day when I have my new camera I can hopefully do a bit more with them.

Still enjoyed taking them even if the model was a little difficult, it must be the diva in her or maybe its just all about being 5!!!!!!

I still haven't blogged about mothers day and our trip to Coffs, but I thought I would just do small posts everyday instead of one huge post lol!

Amber's first Cross Country!

If you could call it cross country, more like a sprint around the oval but for all the little five year olds that probably felt like more than enough, even if it was only 250 metres. They were all so cute in there little sport uniforms and team colours. Poor Amber spent the first 50 metres looking for her mummy and daddy instead of concentrating on the task ahead, she then treated the rest of the race like a meet and greet lol, waving and saying hello to everyone she spotted that she knew!

I wonder in the years to come whether she will inherit my families genes regarding long distance running, I wasn't too bad back in the day with long distance events. I think there is too much competitiveness in sport these days with parents pushing their children way to hard and trying to live out a dream lost from their youth. I secretly would love her to be a good runner, but more importantly I want her to enjoy life and all its challenges and as long as she is having fun and gives everything her best, well that's all a mummy could truly ask for, genes or no genes, I think shes fabulous!

She finished somewhere in the middle and was so excited when they handed her a ribbon for finishing and competing in her first cross country event! Well done sweetheart you did your mummy and daddy proud!

You colour my world (well your face anyway)!

This is the one down side of having an older sister, there are so many tempting things that a six month old can find and do while mummy isn't watching. Eating from the dog food bowl or pulling down everything from the coffee table (this house is so not ready for a crawlling 6 month old) or the below creation! At least he is colour co-ordinating with his outfit lol! Ahhhh my own little picasso in residence, knock yourself out sweetpea! The things a second child has to do to get your attention lol.


I wonder what our next little excapade will be...............................until then batten down the hatches and pray that there is nothing to harmful in his path!

Our house is alive with "The Sound of Music"!

I have such fond memories when I was young of sitting around the T.V. once a year every year to watch a re-run of "The Sound of Music", it became like a tradition in our household and I always had my mum as company, it is still a movie that is close to my heart and certainly a favorite, so it was with some trepidation and excitement that I would come to the day when I could share this little part of my childhood with my daughter and pray that she might share my insane love for films and especially musicals.

All I could think of was "What if she hated it or laughed at me for showing her this prehistoric musical", well I did not need to worry to say that Amber likes it is well...........an understatement. We watched it for the first time on Sunday and it is now only Monday and we are on our 3rd viewing and that is an amazing feat as it is 3 hours long lol! Amber sits there from the beginning to the end entranced and makes me pause it when she needs to go for a bathroom break or to refuel.

Now I have the pleasure of hearing her sing "These are a few of my Favorite Things" and "Doe a Deer" around the house, it makes me feel for just a second that I am seven again. I can now say without any doubt that she is 100% my daughter. May "The Sound of Music" and "ABBA", live on forever, well at least until my daughter grows up and realizes how uncool her mummy's taste really is..........................until then I am going to devour every delicious second of this stage!

Here is a little snippet of my daughters interpretation of her two favorite songs lol! We had the pleasure to hearing "I am sixteen.....going on seventeen", around two hundred times on our car trip down to Coffs Harbour, everyone in McDonald's also had the privilege lol!

Sing on sweetheart, you certainly make me laugh!!!!!

I love the conversation that went on after her very reserved rendition of "I am Sixteen going on Seventeen" because the camera was facing her. She certainly beat her mummy to her first kiss (even if it was a slimy one lol). Ahhhhh........ five year olds lol, all I can say is out of the mouths of babes!!!!

Watch out world here comes Super Aidan!

"Super Aidan", as my husband frequently shouts out as he flies him around the room! Its quite appropriate actually as we never saw these super moves coming quite this fast. This boy doesn't muck around.

Aidan is officially crawling now, it was the commando crawl two weeks ago and now its the full fledged crawl (thankfully at a slow pace atm), but that is not the freaky thing, he only worked out how to crawl four days ago and now he is successfully pulling himself up onto furniture. So not ready for this stage at all, Amber was a bum shuffler and took until around 10 to 11 months to start pulling herself up on furniture, so we were totally blindsided and hoping and praying that Aidan would be the same.

Isn't it funny with your first your pushing them impatiently to keep up with what they say in the books and at mothers groups so you don't feel like some sort of failure and in hindsight with your second you realize that they all reach these special milestones at some point in their own sweet time and that it doesn't matter how long the journey takes as long as you enjoy it!

So this time around I was in no hurry exactly the opposite, I knew what was coming and I was certainly in no hurry to get there. I guess that is the surprise as I wasn't expecting this new challenge so early. It is funny what life throws at you, you can certainly say that it's not boring and now I get to experience this stage in a whole different light!

So is mummy up for this new challenge????? Well Mr. Aidan............it is time for mummy to get fit chasing you around lol!!! So watch our world here comes SUPER AIDAN!!!!!!

Just a quick movie of Aidan crawlling, and below is the start of what I call a big headache lol! Lucky he is so darn cute at the moment!

Sorry the last one is a little long, but it is special to us, our little man is no longer a baby, he is growing so fast, we love you Mr Aidan you bring us endless joy and happiness!

Just had to add these last two photos for a laugh, talk about crazy hair, Aidan has already had two haircuts at 6 months of age, and I don't think he is far from haircut number 3 lol, what do you think! Poor thing he won my gene pool (thick, thick, thick hair)!