Precious Words

"I love you" would have to be the most precious words a mother could hear from her children. I heard Bailey say for the very first time "uv you mum". My heart just melted.

The Grommets Are In

Finally, Bailey was healthy enough to have his grommets in. He was done early, around 9.00am. He fought the gas mask for a little bit, even though they put a chocolate smell on the mask for him. When he has his asthma pump he plays a game where he takes 2 breaths then stops and waits for me to say "keep breathing". I said that to him today with the gas mask on him and then he relaxed. It wasn't long (about 20 mins) and he was finished and we could be with him in recovery, (we had to wear these really sexy shoes over our shoes). He took a while to come out of the aneasthetic and wouldn't stop crying, this was the most upsetting part for me and I had tears. He still had the bung in his hand and he hated that and tried to pull it out. We got the nurse to take it out thinking it would help to relax him but the cotton ball and tape she replaced it with was just as bad to him. All he really wanted was a drink. He kept pushing me toward his bag where he knew is drink bottle was. As soon as I gave it to him he relaxed and stopped crying. The nurses then gave him a vegemite sandwich, which he only ate 1 quarter of and some apple juice. They then gave him a bravery award certificate and some stickers to decorate it with. He was smiling a lot and then started walking around the recovery room so they sent us home. We were home by lunch time. He's been happy and bouncing around like nothing has happened. Now we can look forward to his speech developing. There is one little sentence he manages to speak very clearly and that's "NO WAY!" He picked this up from Micayla's Pixel Chix.

Self Portrait in School Newsletter

Micayla drew a self portrait in her school uniform during her 1st term in Prep and it has been published in the school newsletter "The Link".

Try This Game!!

This one will drive you nuts!!

The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls.

If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal.

It's been said that the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to go for at least 2 minutes.

A fun game

I won an Online Challenge

I entered the "machine stitching' online challenge on the Scrapbook Creations website last month. I can't believe it, I jumped online to find my layout up on the screen as the winner. I didn't even realise, even when I was looking at the picture of the layout, it all happened so quickly, I thought that looks familiar, hey, it's mine. I'm sooo excited. I'm not even sure what I win, I'm pretty sure it's a pack of Scrapbooking products, I just don't remember which brand, but I think there's a lot of stuff in it. Below is the layout that won the challenge.

Rusty Pickle

I was fortunate enough to spend the morning at Scrappers Warehouse with the man behind Rusty Pickle.

For those who don't know Rusty Pickle is a brand of Scrapbooking supplies from the United States. Lance Anderson is the man behind Rusty Pickle and he has a team of designers creating papers and products for us to use.

For 2 hours we spent making a little book called "Alphabet Soup" under the instruction of "Mr Pickle". It was awesome, learning about how Rusty Pickle came about from the man himself. He claims he doesn't have an artistic bone in his body, he has designers who do it all for him. We were given a kit to put the book together and he also gave us all a special little gift each to take home. I have never put together a scrapbooking project so fast in all my scrapbooking time. Everything was in front of me and ready to put together. I just love my little book, which is now going to take pride of place on a table in my lounge for all to see.