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Friday, September 28, 2012

Party Time

So I've finally downloaded photos of the big occasion for you to see - Tad's first birthday (aka Zebe!!)


Just a small occasion really... a couple of other families who we really like came along to assist us in the eating of the cake and have a BBQ in the park.




It was so nice... nice to see the sun... nice to see friends.... SO SO SO nice to have family here for the special occasion and just oh-so-extremely-nice!


The cake (as always) was a joint effort. Hubby 'engineered' it all creating levels and iced the yellow block.  I baked strawberry, vanilla and chocolate 'layers' and iced the rest of the blocks, cut out icing shapes and letters and did the piping (a skill that I have yet to refine!!).  We are so impressed with how it turned out... I actually think that Hubby and I enjoy the challenge of setting a task and seeing it come to fruition.  (You can all eagerly await the 3rd birthday of our little lady in a few weeks to see what we manage to do!!)

It's a pity you all weren't here to taste the cake... one of my finest might I say... a true neopolitan cake flavour.... mmmmm. Pity there is not any left for afternoon tea today.  But family and friends who didn't make it.... know that you were missed!


Saturday, September 8, 2012

Number One

I have been instructed by Husband that I need to write a blog... that I have not blogged in a while and that I need to update everyone!!  (I love that him 'instructing' me, gives me a little insight that he indeed likes to read my blog and dare I say he has missed it(????) this past few weeks!).

nyway, I do have a subject matter for todays blog, but get very limited time with the computer now.  We are doing life at the minute in a 2 1/2 bedroom unit.  More than caters for our needs to be fair, but we have had to put our wee Tad into the computer room to 'teach' him better sleeping habits... or maybe we are 'teaching' Noosh... not sure... but for whatever reason they are now separated for everyones 'positive' sleeping experience.  The moments that I would like to sit down and chat with you all via blog space are now the moments when wee Tad is sleeping which in turn means I cannot sit down and tap-tap-tap away at the keys for fear of disrupting him.  It is but a season however!


So the wee boy in question turned 1 on Wednesday! OMG! Where did that time go? How on earth do I have a nearly 3 year old and a 1 year old?? Only yesterday Noosh was born and now we are a family of 4. Oh my!


 We did what all fabulous creative mothers do on their son's birthdays... and went to McDonalds!! Creativity is not a strong suit at the moment! Anyway, the children both got happy meals, Noosh ate her chippies and sauce, had a token nugget and was off on the playground... Tad on the other hand ate his 3 nuggets and his chippies, devoured his sisters remaining nuggets and polished off a few chippies from Mummy... nothing wrong with his appetite!!!


Tad is just delightful. Full, and when I say full I mean FULL(!!) of mischief. He has only been crawling for a handful of weeks and yet he now unwinds all the toilet paper from not only the holders but the roll... trailing toilet paper behind him (just like the Roly dog!!); he is drawn to the x-box (probably because he has boy genes or is his fathers son!!) and could quite happy push the on-off button for hours either on the console or the remote(!); no cupboard and no drawer is safe from his curiosity (I really do worry about his little fingers!!); he torments his sister who he ADORES... but obviously doesn't play all most games by the rules of a nearly 3 year old which causes endless amounts of frustration on the part of Noosh!


He is simply devine though and has embraced his place in our little family with such gung-ho-ness (totally not a word but so appropriate to use right now!) that we would miss anything less.


He is brave... he is boy... he is love... he is uncomplicated... he is tough... he is hungry (all the time)... he is chatty... he is mischevious... he is cheeky... he is monkey... he is happy.

We think he is totally inestimable... totally priceless... and totally irreplaceable.

xxx