And Jos has discovered his toes!
I am so thankful
* for my children, they’re unique personalities, and the gift of watching them grow
* my husband, I love him today more than ever
* my camera, to be able to capture a small part of these memories
* craft a creative outlet
* my home a place for fun, relaxing, family, friends…
Took some photos of the kiddies for Mum A for mothers’ day. The children were not very cooperative at all!
Also didn’t have the camera settings quite right and everything came out very blue, have had to fiddle with the photos a lot.
Here’s the best of the many many many that I took. And yes, I did try to get a photo of the three of them together, but they did not work at all!
Here’s an original untouched group shot, just to show you how bad it was!
Happy Mothers’ Day to both our mums. We love you both, and really appreciate everything that you have done and continue to do for us. We pray God’s richest blessings to you.
Little Jos is discovering his hands at the moment. I love the way that he stares at them in complete amazement when he manages to get them in his line of sight and hold them there. He also tends to be a bit cross eyed looking.
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Nan: What does an elephant do?
Cayley: Elephant blows his trumpet
Nan: *Laughs… a lot!*
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Praying for Stellan. And for Lusi, can’t wait to meet your new little girl Lus. 
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Thankful
* For a short nap today.
* For being able to recognise that I was behaving about as maturely as my children, and being able to apologise to them and get over it!
* For lunch with Nan and Pop and Aunty Cathy
* For dinner with Gran and Opa and the clan
* For Nan and Pop babysitting so I could go to the housewarming with Brett.
* For quiet cuddles with Jos during worship today.
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Made a couple of cards this weekend too.
Elisha went to a birthday party on the weekend.
The whole class was invited. That’s some very brave parents.
Actually, they were very clever. They had a magician come and entertain the children.
He was fantastic, and kept the audience of many, many four/five year olds entertained, along with a sampling of other age groups mesmerised too.
At one point, somewhere in the middle of the show (after several magic tricks had been performed) he was ‘having trouble’ making a trick work.
“I wonder what the problem is?” he mused.
“You’re not really magic!” came the prompt reply from a young member of the audience, who’d obviously forgotten what he’d already seen.
Things I’m thankful for…
*I’m thankful for a much slower paced weekend than the rest of the week was
*I’m thankful that I survived the busyness of the past week and enjoyed it too.
* I’m so thankful I could catch up with some friends whom I hadn’t seen for such a long time.
* I’m thankful for Revive Our Hearts Ministry and the Counter Cultural Woman series that I’ve been listening too and finding so enriching and edifying
* I’m thankful for the time I’ve had to catch up on some housework and complete SIX layouts this weekend.
First up, I did more craft with the kids.
I had a nice day with Cayley while Elisha was at kindy last week on Thursday. We didn’t do a lot, just hung out together. She helped me do housework and I played with her.
We came in from hanging out some washing and I noticed that she’d scraped her big toe quite nastily. She didn’t notice until about ten minutes later.
Oh my! The drama.
She needed her ‘bambaib’ again.
Note how far the injury and the bandaid are from each other. But if that bandaid fell off, well, she couldn’t walk. It must be a magic bandaid methinks.
There was also some gorgeous doll action…
Some feeding,
and burping,
and snuggling,
and…
er,
licking!
We were having quite a normal conversation with Elisha at the lunch or dinner table over the weekend, when suddenly from nowhere…
Elisha: Daddy
Brett: Yes?
Elisha: Have you ever seen a lion poo?
And the question was asked in such a manner that we couldn’t tell if that was a noun or a verb.
Brett looked at me, I looked at Brett and we both disintegrated into laughter. Of course having made us laugh Elisha kept up with the word he thought had brought about his comic success. Yes we (and especially Brett) kept laughing, but still at the first comment, not the new ones.
And Jos, well he just is cute.
He had his six week (Yes SIX week) check at the doctors’ today. He’s doing great. Putting on an average of almost half a kilo a week. And his baby acne and heat rash are starting to clear up a little (this is a slightly old photo).
He’s also starting to stretch out the time between feeds which is very nice, especially at night. I can’t say that I’m going to be sad when I miss out on watching infomercials in the middle of the night.
On a sad note, Elisha’s fish Coco died today. I know it’s a bit gross, but he’s still floating in his tank. I found him late this afternoon just before I served dinner up. We’ll have a bit of a funeral for him tomorrow. Elisha got Coco towards the end of 2007 as a reward for being fully toilet trained. I can’t believe that it was only that long ago. Feels like much longer than that.
Tomorrow is Elisha’s first FULL day at kindy. And he doesn’t want to go for the whole day. I am going to try and rev him up for it by lunchbox excitement. But I’m not going to force him if he doesn’t want to.
I am thankful…
* for the mild weather
* for the cybercrop at little scrapbook shop that went OFF this weekend, and the funds raised for the Victorian bushfire survivors
* Brett cleaned up the dishes and started the dishwasher for me tonight
* that Jos is doing so well
* that tomorrow is MY six week check and I’ll be able to drive again. Can’t wait.
Can you believe it? I can’t!
Jos is one month old today.
And he’s chubbing up at an alarming rate.
From this:
To this:
And now for some recent Cayleyisms
* Brett received a Batman t-shirt for his birthday and Cayley refers to him as ‘Matman’. Thing is there arefour or five pictures of him – transitioning from Bruce Wayne to a fully fledged Batman. While I was in hospital Brett had the kids at church and Cayley was sitting on his lap pointing to each one and saying “Matman” over and over again.
* While on the topic of church, our pastor’s name is Matt… Cayley calls him Map.
* She can’t say parrot, it comes out carrot. We have a whole routine.
Person X: Cayley, say parrot.
Cayley: Carrot
Person X: Cayley, say “p”.
Cayley: p
Person X: Cayley, say “p” “p” parrot
Cayley: “p” “p” carrot
* Today she got a papercut on her finger and it was bleeding all over the place. Now, I have strange children who, get this, do not like bandaids. But she needed one because everything she was touching was getting blood stained and the bleeding wasn’t stopping. And the dramatics, oh my! I managed to get one on her finger and then distract her with some very cute Flickr pictures. At dinner time we took the bandaid off. The bleeding had stopped, but the dramatics started up again. She insisted (and if you know Cayley, you’ll know what I mean by insisted) she needed a “bambaib”. Because we are not in the habit of using bandaids for our children we had to scrape the bottom of the barrell to fulfill her request demand, this involved Brett cutting a specially shaped knuckle bandaid so he could put it on her finger. Even as he was applying said bandaid she was declaring, “Don’t like bambaib”, and it was removed as soon as it was put on.
Turns out she wanted her pretend bandaid from her doctor’s kit.
Which… is designed to be worn on the wrist. It stopped the dramatics though.
Until it fell off, then they started again until it was put back on.
I am thankful!
* I am thankful for Jos, for the gift that he is to us and the joy he brings us. That he has been for the most part such an easy going baby.
* I am thankful for the conversationss I’ve had with Brett tonight since he got home from work. I love talking to him.
* I am thankful that Elisha could go on a shopping adventure with Nan and Pop to get some of the stuff that he needs for kindy. That he could have that special attention with someone. And thankful that my mum is going to take him out on another adventure to get the rest of what he needs.
* I am thankful for Elisha’s kindy teacher who took the time to call and let me know of a meeting on Wednesday that I wouldn’t get a note about til Tuesday.
* I am thankful for the Lost Sheep series of books which we’re slowly buying for the kids.
Almost didn’t make it to post today. But I did post over here for the first time in forever.
Also, love what Lusi often does with her thankful list, and want to do something similar. It’s good to be thankful.
Today I am thankful
* that not being able to drive means the house is very tidy
* that Dad A rescued us from the sprinklers that wouldn’t stop
* that Mum and Dad V did my fresh grocery shopping at the Spud Shed, we got heaps of stuff and it was only $26
* that Mum A and Mum V are keen to take Elisha on a shopping adventue to get stuff for kindy
* that Jos is starting to sleep longer at night. Go Jos!