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)!

FROM EASTER BONNET PARADES TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOPPING ONE!

FROM OUR BUNNIES TO YOURS HAPPY EASTER!

School makes the excitement with the lead up to Easter that little more thrilling. It amazes me that Amber did not realize that the Easter Bunnies arrival was only hours away, I so thought she would be counting it down with school finishing and all. It just goes to show how carefree and relaxed she really is! I think I was more excited at the prospect of his arrival!

All the preperations and celebrations started at school with the making of the Easter Bonnet (cowboy hat for us), a 7 cent bargain from The Warehouse thank you very muchDot and then all the little prep kiddies spent the last week at school decorating their individual hats this accumulated and ended in the Grand Easter Bonnet Parade around the school. Amber looked so proud and excited marching around the school in her creation. Some of the older kids creations were very impressive I can tell you, it puts the challenge out next year when we have to make the bonnet at home, I can feel a cold sweat working up already at the thought of it lol!!!










Amber and her best friend Greta!




Yeah Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!







I had to post this photo of the mummies who were lucky enough to take the prized hats home!

So here we were on the eve of Easter Sunday, we excitedly made our baskets and with gingham ribbon, blue for Aidan of course and pink which was the only option for our little princess and put them at the end of the bed!







Well you should have seen Amber's excitement when she woke up to find the Easter Bunny had been and distributed eggs all over the house. Amber loves an Easter Egg hunt 10 times more than actually consuming the eggs! She is not that obsessed with chocolate which is a blessing with her nut allergy as there are not that many options for nut free chocolate!

The Bunny also brought a Velvet covered Princess Book for Amber and some jammies and swimmers for Aidan, they both did very well for themselves I think!
















Forget the Easter eggs Aidan prefers the taste of straw from the basket lol!



















Some times it is all just too much and you need a little time out!!!!














We had a lovely breakfast of toast and hot cross buns and then it was off to Grandma's for an all day feast and more eggs to consume and another Easter Egg hunt (even if the wet weather had made the ground a little squishy and muddy, this did not stop the die hard Easter Egg hunters and there was quite a few big people in that list also lol.)!







This was Emma and Amber's feet after the Easter Egg Hunt lol!

I can contest that I certainly ate way to much, but enjoyed every mouth full just the same! It was lovely to see all the babies (the floor was covered in babies, one on the move, and two very close behind), it looked like we were at playgroup lol! Amber and Emma entertained themselves and played beautifully together like they always do. The adults even managed to fit in a game of poker thanks to mum watching all the littlies I don't know how mum managed all the five kidlets, what can I say she is amazing and it was a real treat to play with adults for a change lol!





I wonder what our little man was thinking in the below photo (give me back that alice band I bet lol)!








I just love my daughters fashion sense lol, her Easter polka dot outfit lasted all of 2 hours before she stripped and changed! These two copy cat each other all the time, if one changes this automatically means the other must do the same immediately lol!





I giggle every time I see this photo of Emma (I can imagine a caption above her head saying why have you made me sniff these flowers???)!





The first and last Easter we will probably be able to get these three to keep ears on their heads!


We have had a busy weekend laying turf and cleaning up our storage area, so it was a relief to have Sunday off and we are now back to cleaning up a storm, I don't think we will ever reach the end lol!

I hope everyone had a fabulous Easter break and that the Easter Bunny was good to you all!

Hugs Kylie xx

Today's the Day the Teddy Bears Have Their Picnic!

What a mad couple of weeks it has been at school we have had a Teddy Bears Picnic, an Easter Bonnet Parade and many more fundraising things to prepare for. We have also had three birthday parties and all I can say is that I am happy that the Easter holidays have finally arrived.

I have to say though the teddy bears picnic was so much fun, I was at the school helping out on several occasions with the preparations for this special event, and I had a ball and the actual day had not even arrived yet!

Amber absolutely loves going to school and is devastated if I even mention missing a day but I am so thankful for the break and the rest from rising early and making lunches and rushing around like an idiot trying to get everyone out the door!

Well the picnic went off with out a hitch and we were entertained with songs and a special little dance that they must have been practising for weeks. All the parents were also invited up to dance with our children thankfully there was no video camera pointed my way lol, I much prefer being behind it rather than in front of it! We then all sat down for a feast of goodies specially made for such an event. Amber invited her favorite teddy bear of the moment which was her beanie bear dressed as a mermaid all pink and aqua which she loves it to death. Teddy even had a sleep over at the school over night ( what a brave teddy she was).

The sad thing about this whole situation is that her teddy bear went missing on the day of the Easter bonnet parade as she wanted to take teddy to school again as she enjoyed it so much the first time and so somewhere in between travelling to school and travelling home she has gone missing. Amber is beside herself and has been upset for the last couple of days. So a search party was sent out and I looked high and low around the house and at school, I even traced the path in which we walked to school to no avail! I begged her not to take it for this reason but I didn't want to squash her excitement seeing it was the last week of school for this term and all!

Thankfully she lost her teddy a week after the picnic and she didn't realise it was gone until after the Easter parade! I am sure I will be searching high and low now in every store trying to replace her! Lets hope I find one as sleep time has been a little more challenging over the last couple of days. I know it is a hard lesson to learn and the teddy probably shouldn't be replaced to teach her a lesson, but when it is a sleep companion it just doesn't seem fair!

The picnic was still a lovely celebration of her first term at school and it was great to see how far they had all come in such a short amount of time. Amber's has a lovely class and all the children seem to get along famously. Amber adores her teachers and talks about them both all the time. It is such a magical sound hearing children laugh and giggle with glee it makes you want to go back in time so you could relive such simple pleasures without all the complications of being an adult! Don't you wish you could bottle that kind of excitement and joy, I know I do!

Thank you for the fun and entertaining day Amber, I especially loved the "Beetle in the Bathroom" song it was a favourite and I am crossing my fingers and toes and hoping that magic does happen and that your teddy suddenly turns up out of nowhere to put that smile back on your face where it truly belongs!

Have a bearalious day everyone!!!!