No more 3 yr olds in our house

This is our big 4 year old boy!

After presents this morning he was off to kinder where Mummy made a surprise appearance with a birthday cake! 

He also got to choose who he wanted to have sit on his birthday table with him and walked around to each child offering his cake.

Happy birthday my beautiful baby boy. It seems like just yesterday you were born and now you’re so grown up! I’m amazingly proud of you and love you to bits, always.

xxxxx

Peek-a-boo

Just checking in, there’s been some goings on behind the scenes and new things are emerging.

Soon I’ll be able to share with you, but until then I’ll leave you with a little hint:

 

 

Mum, avert your eyes

Seriously, if you go past this point you will ruin your birthday surprise!

The rest of you please carry on!

……

This is my new invention…

Can it be called an invention if it doesn’t actually ‘do’ anything? Well, I’m calling it that anyway. I’ve been looking at this Etsy shop for ages, wishing I could have one of the beautiful little terrariums, sadly they’re from the US and shipping costs an arm and a leg to Australia.

So I decided to make my own (actually this one is for my Darling Mother for her birthday coming up). I ordered the little globe from a wedding supply company (they’re meant for tea candles) and soldered together a fork, a spoon and a plate stand left over from a jewellery tree.

The cute little air plant came from this ebay store they have a huge range of air plants- some beautiful colours! You can buy a clump and break it up into smaller sections if you want more plants. They were also really helpful on how to look after them.

I’m so pleased with how this little idea turned out! Hopefully my Mum likes her birthday present too!

 

Cack

Please excuse the little blogger hiatus, for the last 2 days I have been this colour:

And I can assure you I certainly wasn’t smiling.

The dreaded gastro completely levelled me and I still feel strangely weak in my arms and legs. Happily though, I seem to possess the super power of ‘keeping your germs to yourself’ because no one else has come down with it *yet*. 

But I’m bouncing back quickly and ready to show you another little invention tomorrow!

Until then!

 

Please excuse me

My Hubby has taken the kids to swim and stay at the lake tonight.

So I’m on my own…

Currently to be found swanning around the house in my undies (thanks to the putrid muggy weather) and contemplating how far I will have to walk tomorrow if I eat this:

See you tomorrow, 10kg heavier and hopefully fully dressed!

He he, I love my Husband!

Gumboots

More fun to wear if you wear nothing else!

 

Don’t eat the paint

Sunday afternoon, we’ve walked, we’ve brunched, we’ve milkshaked and now we’ve painted:

It was always going to happen…

How long is too long?

The age old question… how long is too long for a boy’s hair?

At the moment Aus has nice, neat, close cropped hair. It suits him and his eyes look gorgeous when he doesn’t have long hair falling in them!

And this is Noah now. I think this look kinda suits him too… but evidently the day care girls think otherwise. When he came back to care from holidays all they could say was ‘Oh look at his hair!’

I suppose it has become a bit wooly or mullet-ish if you will… especially when it actually goes curly when wet. I know little girls with less hair than this (though not through their parents choosing!)

He is booked in to the hair dresser tomorrow but I just don’t know if I should get it really short or just a little bit shorter.

Maybe I’ll get her to do a progressive cut and I’ll just stand there and say woo when I think it’s short enough. Pictures of my cropped little lamb tomorrow!

 

While we’re on the subject

I have been meaning to blog this since before Christmas. Remember this box I got at a garage sale? I was going to do it up for my brother’s 21st birthday…

Here it is all done up to the nines’. 

I painted it a slate grey and attached new handles.

The outlines of the letters were lightly printed on to old pages of Shakespeare plays, then I cut them out and modge-podged them on to the box. I did several layers over top of the letters to make sure they wont come off.

I managed to get it to him only 6 months late… a record for me!

Who knows what he will put in it, boy stuff no doubt.

In the absence of a pool

Use a garbage bin and sprinkler instead… like so

He he he.

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!

Thanks for all the lovely messages of support, it’s really touching that so many people care! So far everyone is safe and dry and I really hope it stays that way.

Actually what I really want is for everything to go back to normal. The strain of worrying for over 2 weeks, not knowing if you’ve made the right decision to protect your family, really gets to you after a while!

Sandbags are heavy

 

These are our sandbagging efforts last week. This is at Lake Charm, in front of our friends’ holiday house- they were busy defending their home near Kerang from the rising flood waters. So we stepped in for them.

My Sister and Parents are still at Lake Charm and are staying to defend our house there. They say the water is pouring into the lake now with no chance of slowing down and the flooding is going to be pretty horrific. I am just hoping they will be ok. If the power goes off I’m pretty sure they will evacuate… or I hope!