Half way through week one of the holidays already!! Noooooooooooo!!! I really hate school days - it is so much easier for me to keep the kids home and not have to rush out of the house in a panic every morning. It's so much more stress free in the holidays.

Having said that though, I think the kids are getting cabin fever at the moment. I really must think of a few fun things to do with them over the holidays so they don't think they have done nothing. Lachlan and Cody would love to go to the movies so I might do that one day ( I think they would love Horton hears a who! )

Dana has been down from Kal this week so we have spent a fair bit of time with them. I went with her to her 19 week ultrasound today so I have officially seen our new little niece/nephew first!! So cute!! She/He was a real little wrigglepot though and the sonographer had all sorts of trouble getting good shots (hence the she/he issue, LOL!) Still, it all looks great so fingers crossed for another 20 weeks of uneventful pregnancy for them before the new little one joins us.

Tomorrow the termite man is coming at about 1.30 so we will need to leave the house then and stay away for about 4 hours... great!! I guess I will take the kids to mums and hide out there till it's safe to come back. It might be take away night tomorrow night then... I don't see me getting home at 6pm and then trying to figure out what to cook.

oh well... I guess i'd better get some sleep since it sounds like the troops are down for the night. Being a mum to five is great fun but it's damned tiring too!

M.

end of term one already!

I can't believe how fast the year is flying by! I never seem to get any spare time to get on here and update! Just as well no one reads it any more...ha ha ha! They'd all be bored to death waiting for news!

I have missed out on updating heaps of stuff lately. We went on our week away to Busselton with Mum and Dad and that passed far too quickly. The kids had a ball and although it was really just the same work in a different location for us adults - we all had a good time.

My bubbies are now well and truly crawling! They get around the house at amazing speed if you turn your back on them so it's good fun! They need to be locked in the playpen if I am going for a shower or to hang washing out etc.. otherwise I come back to find them in the toilet (or somewhere equally as gross!)

I really must start thinking about a first birthday party for the twins too.. I have no idea what I will do - most likely a BBQ in the backyard and cross my fingers that it doesn't rain or isn't too cold.

Lachlan signed up for football yesterday so he is very excited about that. He came home and tried his new footy shorts and socks on and can't wait for their first game (the second saturday of the school holidays).

Cody and Niamh are doing well at the moment too. Cody is loving kindy with a passion. He is such a social little kid and thrives on the environment at school (wish his big brother was the same!!) Niamh is happy pottering around the house playing 'titchens' and mums and dad's with her dollies! Too cute!

Marnie.

OUCH!

We have got so much going on at the moment! It makes a change to our usual routine but it is exhausting with so many things on the calendar!

Last night we went to see Ben Lee in concert in Kings Park - he was UNREAL!!! We had the best night and the concert was so good! Ben was really amazing and truly entertaining both while singing and between songs :) I think he's my new favorite!! We managed to get a spot right up the front near the stage so the view was awesome and I am so glad we went - I would definitely do it again.

I have spent the last week in a fair amount of pain from an injury I sustained while taking my new pram out of the boot during a routine school drop off. As I lifted the Phil & Teds sport out of my boot I allowed it to flick open and my fingers were unfortunately in the wrong position (where the pram hinges open) I swear to god I have never felt as much pain in my life! I said some really colourful words (NOT appropriate for a kindy carpark) then the tears started flowing and I couldn't stop and pull myself together. The pain was so intense I went into shock and started shaking pretty bad. Poor little Lachlan had to go off to his classroom with another mum from the carpark while I managed to drive myself off to the doctors. (I was going to go to mums first to assess the damage but pretty soon realised I needed to go straight to the doctors!) I had called Mum and Dad and asked them to meet me down at the doctors so I knew they were on their way to take care of the kids. In hindsight I shouldn't have driven with the kids in the car because by the time I got to the doctors I felt like I was about to pass out. The receptionists came out to the car and fetched the kids in and I went down to the treatment area. After Mum and Dad arrived and they had given me a shot of morphine and treated me for shock I was finally able to pull it together enough to think straight and Mum and Dad took the kids home to their house while I waited to get an x-ray. It turns out that I broke the fingertip off and crushed the bone into lots of little bits - no wonder it hurt like a b*tch!!

So, now I am dealing with a really sore finger and 5 kids while we are trying to get ready to pack for a week away! We are off to Busselton next Sunday for a week (not before Anthony & Leah's wedding on Sat!!) so I have soooo much to organise!

The kids and Dan are in the wedding party so this week will be spent getting all the last minute things together - socks, stockings, hair clip for Niamh, Niamh's dress needs to be fixed so it fits her properly, I need a haircut, wedding present needs to be organised etc.... Oh the fun!!

Aside from the crazy business, everyone is really well :) The twins are not quite crawling but not too far off. they are a lot of fun but a lot of hard work at the moment. Lachlan is settled into grade one and Cody is loving every minute of kindy. Niamh is growing up so much and she is an independent little miss - so cute though ;)

Well, I guess I should get some rest as it's getting late.

M.

Not much to report

we are all just plodding along here - enjoying the school holidays and not having to get organised early in the morning every day! Lachlan has been doing Vacswim swimming lessons at the Kwinana Req and seems to be enjoying it. It's a bit of a pain because his lesson is at 11.55 every day so that means we are spending the major part of the day out of the house (by the time I have dropped the babes at Mum's and then gone back to collect them, had lunch etc...) Niamh is missing out on her sleep during the day because of it and it is making for one very grumpy little girl!

I am feeling really motivated to do some sewing lately. I have been reading some fantastic blogs from my EB 'newbies sewing' group and I am inspired! I need to get the footplate of Nanna Yates' old Bernina fixed because it is playing up at the moment so I will see if Dad can have a look at it for me but in the meantime I have just 'inherited' Nanna W's old Singer from SIL Dana since she said she wasn't using it and didn't have a need for it. I am really pleased that I have this 'new' machine now because I never ended up with anything of Nan's after she passed away and for sentimental reasons if nothing else, I will cherish it! Hopefully I will get a chance over the next few days to figure out my next move and settle on a project to try.....watch this space, LOL!

I'd better go get off this computer and get some sleep now though, it is late and I had a major migraine type headache yesterday (which I am still feeling the after-effects from!) I don't want to find myself waking up with another one tomorrow!

Night all.

M.

First Aid Course

Just a bit of a plug here for anyone that might be interested...

I am organising to run a child-specific first aid course from my house. It is something I have been meaning to get around to for a long time and I keep thinking "what if I don't and something bad happens..." so I have called a guy who runs these courses and temporarily booked one in.

It will be :

Wed 30th Aug and Wed 6th Feb from 7pm till 10pm
Cost: $60 per person (includes all notes and manuals)
it's called 'save a child' (not sure if I'm allowed to link to it?)

If anyone is interested in attending let me know! I need at least 8 people to run it so feel free to ask your friends, neighbours, family etc..

M.

My Neevie cracks me up!

Niamh is so funny! We made some brownies this afternoon to try and placate the kids and stop the constant fighting and whinging. Well, as you can see miss N. loves to cook - if it was up to her there would be nothing actually going into the oven (although in this case we may as well not have bothered anyway as I massively undercooked them so they were a soggy gooey mess - oh well, better luck next time.) Just picture this little girl between licks of the spatula saying "mmmm chock-lit, fave-rit!" She's a girl after my own heart :)

Happy new year!

OK, so I know I am a bit slow but as my first post for the new year I had to say it!

We had such a great Christmas and New years here! It was crazy and chaotic but heaps of fun and the kids all got so spoilt! The jolly old man in the big red suit was certainly very generous to them this year!

We had a full on week over Christmas with lots of family, friends and way too much food. There was a whole lot of swimming in the pool and the kids and I made the most of Dan being on holidays. I think he actually had a hard time going back to work after all the playing we did at home. Now things are finally starting to settle down again and I am doing my best to get the kids a little bit of rest before they need to start the school year. Cody will be going into kindergarten and Lachlan will be grade one!

The babes are doing really well too. They now both have two bottom teeth and can both roll from back to front as soon as they are put onto the carpet. I need to make an appointment to go and get them weighed but they are doing great and are very healthy! They have begun eating solids too. At the moment it is just one meal a day but they seem to be tolerating it well and soon I will move to breakfast and dinner. They sleep wonderfully well - consistently doing 12 hours at night time so we really can't complain about that at all :)

I guess I had better get going and get ready to go out. I am off to the dentist this morning so wish me luck! I hadn't been to the dentist at all for 15 years and finally plucked up the courage a few weeks ago. Today I am going to get a filling and an extraction done - arrrgggh! I hate the dentist! call me crazy but I would rather the pain of childbirth any day!!!