Mum's 70th

On 21st October we went to Ballarat to celebrate Mum's 70th Birthday. The party was at Rochelle's house. It was just a small group of family and friends of Mum and Dads from the past 40+ years. It was a great day although very cold. Mum and Dad really enjoyed having their friends and family around.

This photo is of Mum with her kids. Left to right, my brother rohan, my sister Rochelle, Mum, my brother Geoff and me.

What birthday wouldn't be complete without a photo with her grandkids. Left to right Kieran, Liam, Taylah, Micayla, Lachlan and Bailey in the front.

Kieran and Taylah belong to Rochelle and Mark, Liam and Lachlan belong to Rohan and Wanda and of course you know who Micayla and Bailey belong to. Dale and Wayne belong to Geoff but they couldn't make it to the party.

We had a spit roast and salads and as usual there was way too much food. But it was all very delicious. It was great catching up with the people I haven't seen in years. Some of them were parents of kids I went to primary school with. And of course as it is every party I make the cake for, it's heartbreaking to put the knife through the cake.

The kids had a lot of fun together and their Uncle Geoff took them all for a ride in the back of his ute. Micayla and Taylah were calling him "funny Uncle Geoff". Geoff is a big kids himself.

I WON AGAIN!!!!

I can't believe the luck I'm having this year. I am someone who never wins anything and so far this year I have won 4 different things, including this one.

I received a surprise parcel yesterday morning from Scrapbooking Memories. It's paints and mediums and kindy glitz from the Matisse range. I did the 25 words or less thing from Vol 8 No 1 and actually WON! Yeah!!!! I so wanted this stuff too.

So it is true, you can actually win with those 25 words or less comps. Sorry can't offer any tips. I can't even remember what I rattled off. All I can say is you've got to be in it to win it! Keep playing and one day it will pay off.

Whooo Hooooo!!!

This is what I won!

Bailey's now in K1 Swimming

Bailey had his first swimming lesson today in K1. He swims at Kings Swim Centre and their independant swimming lessons are graded from K1 to K12. He is just tall enough to go in the shallow end on his tip toes and have the water just under his lips. Micayla was at the same height when she went in by herself for the first time. Micayla is now K5, almost ready for K6.

I've been swimming with him in the parent and child class since he was 14 months old and Bailey turns 3 next month. Boy am I glad I don't have to get wet anymore. I also did it with Micayla from the time she was 10 months old until she was 2 months off 3.

Bailey did very well. He was happy to be in the water on his own. Didn't always do what the teacher told him though. The photo where he is walking with the board, he is actually supposed to be flat in the water kicking. The other photo where he is against the wall of the pool, he is standing flat footed and the water covers his lips. He's ok if he walks on his tip toes, which is what he does. By the end he was jumping in to his teacher, but this is something he shouldn't actually do unless asked to. Luckily there was only 1 other boy in his class who was quite competant in that level and she was able to help Bailey out a lot.


When he finished he got is K1 certificate.

Micayla's School Sleepover

Micayla spent last night sleeping in the hallway of her school. It was her prep class school sleepover. She was so excited to get to school and lay out her bed next to her friends. They had an evening of activities and their dinner was party food. She said that ate party pies, chips, sausage rolls and had ice cream. Apparantly they got to sleep around 11.00pm and they started popping their heads up off the pillows at around 6.00am. Then it was breakfast of wheat bix and toast. Micayla said "I didn't eat my wheat bix because they were cold and you know I like my wheat bix warm". The morning activity was making their own lunch to eat at lunch time. We picked up the kids at 1.pm because the kids were supposed to be tired but I think the teachers had had enough by then was more to the point. When I picked her up everyone elses beds and bags were packed up ready to go, except of course Micayla's, hers was still spread everywhere and her bag half unpacked. This is typical. Micayla then went to play at her friend Paige's house.

It was weird only tucking in one child to sleep last night. Every night before I go to bed I go and tuck the kids in some more and give them another kiss goodnight. Last night I tucked Bailey into bed and then looked into Micayla's empty room and I missed her.

Silvers Circus

On Wednesday 4th October we took the kids to see Silvers Circus. They were amazed at the magic and the amazing acrobats they performed. Adrian and I have been to see Cirque d'Solei and found this circus just does not compare, but the kids loved it. They've never been to anything like this before. I thought Bailey would've got bored and start running around chairs etc as a normal 2 year old would do, but he too was in awe of it all and either sat in his own chair or on our laps with his eyes peeled on the performances, clapping when he saw something he liked.

Aarrrgghhh!!! Kids - Who'd 'ave 'em!!!!

Sometimes our toilet button gets stuck and I could hear the toilet water still running so I went to investigate and release the button, only to find the ensuite flooded. Bailey had stuffed about 2/3 of a toilet roll down the toilet. I had about 2 inches of water all over the ensuite floor and spilling out over the carpet. So now I have a mopping up/drying out process of carpet to do. Aaarrggghhh!

Luckily though the worst of it was all over the tiles and only a small spillage onto the carpet. Heater drying on it now as I type. LOL