We not long got home from morning tea in town with our little Family, and the boy across the road came over for a play.
I love that we are finally in a place where the kids can have friends over, without the parents having to stress about weekend cleaning cause we are working all week (forget that my DH works shift).
It warms my heart to hear my children playing and entertaining their friends when they come over. I love listening to their childhood conversations, they are so innocent and truthful with each other.
Well, that is all I have to say for now, just sharing the love!
Saturday, 2 June 2012
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Little Miss 3
When Master 5 was only 2, and Little Miss 3 was a wee little baby, I made a book for my little man all about him. Nothing fancy, I just got on a printable website and the book format was already there, all I had to do was insert some individual text and voila, a book was made. It was only printed on basic paper and not contacted or anything so it is looking a little sad.
It has to be a favourite book of both my children at the moment, and as such I have been promising Little Miss 3 I would make her one also. So, tonight I have re-discovered that particular website, and am currently printing out the makings of her personalised story. I need to print out pictures also (lucky I bought ink today), to cover the generic pictures which the story comes with.
I know she will be proud as punch in the morning and can't wait to show her.
Now, I know it seems everything is about my little princess of late, but as I explained to Master 5 just a few days ago, he had his turn about everything when he was little. He understands, but is a little apprehensive to accept the facts, so we will just have to deal with the reassurrance that both our children are loved equally.
Ciao!
It has to be a favourite book of both my children at the moment, and as such I have been promising Little Miss 3 I would make her one also. So, tonight I have re-discovered that particular website, and am currently printing out the makings of her personalised story. I need to print out pictures also (lucky I bought ink today), to cover the generic pictures which the story comes with.
I know she will be proud as punch in the morning and can't wait to show her.
Now, I know it seems everything is about my little princess of late, but as I explained to Master 5 just a few days ago, he had his turn about everything when he was little. He understands, but is a little apprehensive to accept the facts, so we will just have to deal with the reassurrance that both our children are loved equally.
Ciao!
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Making Music
Little Miss 3's favourite day of the week. Today is music makers, a class where she gets to be loud, play with different kids, lots of different instruments and have heaps of fun! She absolutely loves it, and it has everything to do with her fantastically motivated, totally enthusiastic teacher! She does a great job getting everyone involved, while incidentally teaching the kids about musical terms and introducing them to things they might not see for many years like a violin, using a microphone, and did I mention it is so much fun? It is hard not to join in!
I am so glad I have the opportunity to expose my daughter to these things.
On another note, it was so hard to get Master 5 ready for school today cause all he wanted to do was come to Music makers, even though he has never been before, he just knows he is missing out on something special.
I am so glad I have the opportunity to expose my daughter to these things.
On another note, it was so hard to get Master 5 ready for school today cause all he wanted to do was come to Music makers, even though he has never been before, he just knows he is missing out on something special.
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
What a month!
Wow, I have not done a blog for just over a month, sorry!
It has not been deliberate, just a series of unexpected events.
Firstly, we have a car! And what a story that was (lol).
Ok, after having no car for about 6 weeks, we finally got our new car at the beginning of the month, and so began my busy month. We were hoping the new car would be ready on the tuesday, and I would go get it from Brisbane, but it was not ready until the friday, so we went and got it and travelled straight out west for a family members' 50th birthday. During the weekend our 2day old car sustained a windscreen chip and our 2day old car hit a kangaroo! Wow, what an experience, now the kids call all dead roos on the road mine (how special!).
The following weekend we were supposed to go to the farm to begin the final chapter of Sausage (our ex-pig), but my DH had other plans! A concussion at football saw me picking him up from hospital on Mothers Day Morning, vetoing our trip away. Sausage lives another day (for the minute).
This weekend saw us at the farm finalising the chapter of Sausage, and the kids handled the death of their pig rather well. They began by petting it and saying 'I Love You Sausage' and half an hour later she was strung up and headless (the kids did not witness this process though). Little Miss 3 would not go near the strung carcass, but we got a great shot of Master 5.
It has not been deliberate, just a series of unexpected events.
Firstly, we have a car! And what a story that was (lol).
Ok, after having no car for about 6 weeks, we finally got our new car at the beginning of the month, and so began my busy month. We were hoping the new car would be ready on the tuesday, and I would go get it from Brisbane, but it was not ready until the friday, so we went and got it and travelled straight out west for a family members' 50th birthday. During the weekend our 2day old car sustained a windscreen chip and our 2day old car hit a kangaroo! Wow, what an experience, now the kids call all dead roos on the road mine (how special!).
The following weekend we were supposed to go to the farm to begin the final chapter of Sausage (our ex-pig), but my DH had other plans! A concussion at football saw me picking him up from hospital on Mothers Day Morning, vetoing our trip away. Sausage lives another day (for the minute).
This weekend saw us at the farm finalising the chapter of Sausage, and the kids handled the death of their pig rather well. They began by petting it and saying 'I Love You Sausage' and half an hour later she was strung up and headless (the kids did not witness this process though). Little Miss 3 would not go near the strung carcass, but we got a great shot of Master 5.
I scored a Thermomix this month (Yay!), so monday was spent mincing Sausage and packaging all the extras like ribs, medallions etc into the freezer. Sausage's second last chapter will come when she gets turned into sausage, and the final chapter will be when my husband enjoys eating the sausage.
I cooked up some of the ribs for lunch today, and my girl kept telling everyone her Dad was eating Sausage, the other kids were not impressed when they could not see a sausage though!
So, on top of freezing Sausage, I began caring for a friends children on monday, as her maternity leave has expired and she unfortunately had to go back to work. Alas, I get a baby around the house to cuddle and make giggle, and my Little Miss 3 has a friend over to run amok with! I am not used to such a busy house anymore, so I think I will need an early night tonight.
It has become overcast here again, and getting cool. So I need to get off my butt and do some laundry while I can!
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
It happened.......
So, I come home from my parenting duties (ie. P&C meeting) this evening to discover my washing strewn across the lawn - again. I was furious, to say the least. Pretending not to notice, I called over the culprit and dragged his naughty butt to the chain and tied him up.
Forgetting about the hot chips which we bought for dinner, I then went to pick up the laundry, and all the pegs too cause that annoying dog will eat them. Laundry on, the kids are wrangling the chooks out of my garden so I decide it is time to put them to bed. Still furious, I discover the chooks have pecked the bottom off their feed dispensed and can't find the wing nut and washer to reattach it. Aaarghh.
Luckily the chooks come into the pen easily and we shut them in for the night. As they still like to sleep in the nesting box and not on the roost, I have been barricading off the nesting box at night, so I go around the pen to do this. I open the nesting box lid and the frustration from the past quarter hour washes away as I find this
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OUR FIRST EGG!!!!
It was so hard getting those two to smile for some reason, I think they just wanted to own the egg individually! I had to take it off them to make sure it did not drop on the ground!
After getting over my excitement I remembered we had 'hot' chips for dinner and ushered the kids off to eat.
Forgetting about the hot chips which we bought for dinner, I then went to pick up the laundry, and all the pegs too cause that annoying dog will eat them. Laundry on, the kids are wrangling the chooks out of my garden so I decide it is time to put them to bed. Still furious, I discover the chooks have pecked the bottom off their feed dispensed and can't find the wing nut and washer to reattach it. Aaarghh.
Luckily the chooks come into the pen easily and we shut them in for the night. As they still like to sleep in the nesting box and not on the roost, I have been barricading off the nesting box at night, so I go around the pen to do this. I open the nesting box lid and the frustration from the past quarter hour washes away as I find this
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OUR FIRST EGG!!!!It was so hard getting those two to smile for some reason, I think they just wanted to own the egg individually! I had to take it off them to make sure it did not drop on the ground!
After getting over my excitement I remembered we had 'hot' chips for dinner and ushered the kids off to eat.
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Food, do we have to?
I find it hard enough some days to get the kids to eat and now I have to be cautious about the food Master 5 eats, as if life is not already busy enough!
So, to recap and bring everyone up to speed, Master 5 has suffered a sore tummy for some time now. It was noted late last year his 'burping' habit (not belching whoppers, thank goodness), which has grown into an upset tummy most days upon waking, and has turned into a frequent vomiting situation. It was not until the vomiting started I decided there was something else than a bad burping habit and off we went to the doctors to get a 'reason' for this situation.
After Master 5 bravely sat down for a blood test, and put me through some public exposure to get prepared for a tummy xray, I have had the results rechecked and our boy has a condition called GORD.
Good GORD I said to him at the doctors, and he laughed not realising what we are in for the next few months! And I could give you the proper expansion of the Gord acronym but Reflux is a much more common term for it.
Reflux does not sound that bad, and for an infant it is easily delt with (as my doctor explained), you just change their formula until you find one which is good for the baby, and medicate. Unfortunately Master 5 is no longer a baby, and does not take formula but real food! So we now have to become conscious of exactly what he is consuming. Limiting sugary, spicy, acidy, and fatty foods. Sounds easy, but practice is a little harder. He is also to avoid 'heavy' foods for a month, like oats/barley etc. What a horrible situation to put a child in come these colder days, when porridge becomes the breakfast choice.
We also have to give Master 5 medication, which has proved to work so far. The doctor asked if he would take a tablet because the powdered form is about $50 more expensive, I said yes and Daddy can deal with it! Master 5 has decided that chewing the tablet and drinking it down with water is the best way to take it. So far so good, the bucket he has had his head over the past week has disappeared and he has more life in his little body! The only tricky part of the medication is it has to be taken 1hour before food and 4hours after food. For kids whom usually eat every 3 or so hours, this I fear will become difficult. My only choice at the moment is to give it to him upon waking in the morning and try to hold off on brekky for an hour. Worked today, but day one so will see how we go.
As I am typing this, smelling the pumpkin soup preparing itself on the stove for dinner, I realise I have put 2 whole onions in it and I now will need to make something extra for Master 5's dinner, bugger.
So, if you have any 'reflux friendly' recipes, I would appreciate them, and any other advice anyone can give me to help our Little Boy would be appreciated.
So, to recap and bring everyone up to speed, Master 5 has suffered a sore tummy for some time now. It was noted late last year his 'burping' habit (not belching whoppers, thank goodness), which has grown into an upset tummy most days upon waking, and has turned into a frequent vomiting situation. It was not until the vomiting started I decided there was something else than a bad burping habit and off we went to the doctors to get a 'reason' for this situation.
After Master 5 bravely sat down for a blood test, and put me through some public exposure to get prepared for a tummy xray, I have had the results rechecked and our boy has a condition called GORD.
Good GORD I said to him at the doctors, and he laughed not realising what we are in for the next few months! And I could give you the proper expansion of the Gord acronym but Reflux is a much more common term for it.
Reflux does not sound that bad, and for an infant it is easily delt with (as my doctor explained), you just change their formula until you find one which is good for the baby, and medicate. Unfortunately Master 5 is no longer a baby, and does not take formula but real food! So we now have to become conscious of exactly what he is consuming. Limiting sugary, spicy, acidy, and fatty foods. Sounds easy, but practice is a little harder. He is also to avoid 'heavy' foods for a month, like oats/barley etc. What a horrible situation to put a child in come these colder days, when porridge becomes the breakfast choice.
We also have to give Master 5 medication, which has proved to work so far. The doctor asked if he would take a tablet because the powdered form is about $50 more expensive, I said yes and Daddy can deal with it! Master 5 has decided that chewing the tablet and drinking it down with water is the best way to take it. So far so good, the bucket he has had his head over the past week has disappeared and he has more life in his little body! The only tricky part of the medication is it has to be taken 1hour before food and 4hours after food. For kids whom usually eat every 3 or so hours, this I fear will become difficult. My only choice at the moment is to give it to him upon waking in the morning and try to hold off on brekky for an hour. Worked today, but day one so will see how we go.
As I am typing this, smelling the pumpkin soup preparing itself on the stove for dinner, I realise I have put 2 whole onions in it and I now will need to make something extra for Master 5's dinner, bugger.
So, if you have any 'reflux friendly' recipes, I would appreciate them, and any other advice anyone can give me to help our Little Boy would be appreciated.
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Our Chooks are not Chicken!
Whenever we go out and come back in the afternoon, our chickens are sitting on and under our front steps. The other day, once the chooks had moved, I saw Rusty sitting in there with them, I am pretty sure the chooks were resting on top of him and he was sleeping cause we did not initially see him!
This afternoon, I feed the dogs (of whom our puppy is now as big as our big dog) with Little Miss 3 helping. Upon placing the dog bowls on the ground and walking away, the chooks approached the dogs peering into the dog bowls and pecking at the ground around them. Boy these chickens are game, and our dogs are awesome (except for when the puppy pulls washing off the line and eats our thongs)!
This afternoon, I feed the dogs (of whom our puppy is now as big as our big dog) with Little Miss 3 helping. Upon placing the dog bowls on the ground and walking away, the chooks approached the dogs peering into the dog bowls and pecking at the ground around them. Boy these chickens are game, and our dogs are awesome (except for when the puppy pulls washing off the line and eats our thongs)!
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