Sunday Photoshoot

Baking

After visiting Louise on friday and seeing all her baking efforts I got inspired. It helped a lot that Reuben was entertaining Kaisha so I didn't have my usual little "helper" to interfere.

Lemon stars, chocolate wheaten hearts, snickerdoodles, and cookie teddy bears and teapots.

Sleepover

Kaisha had her first friend to sleep over this weekend. Her and Reuben had so much fun together, highlights were:

• Going through the new tunnel under the Brisbane river on the way home. They were so excited.
• Playing with balloons, they had the whole packet strew around the house and there was a lot of spit involved.

• Lying in bed giggling together. We actually made them sleep in different rooms. Otherwise no one would have had any sleep!
  

• Seeing two head bent together in the sandpit.

• Having Reuben come up to me and tell me he has a baby in his tummy (it was a ball). This caused Kaisha to have a fit cause she thought he had her doll up his shirt.
• Watching them play hid and seek, Kaisha hid behind the curtains and refused to look up at Reuben when he found her, cause as long as she doesn't see him, he can't see her.

They were both exhausted by the time Lou came to pick Reuben up and Kaisha slept in til 8:30 this morning which is a serious sleep in for her.

Kaisha is still coughing after 2 months so I decided to take this "weekend" easy. No walking, playdates, shopping or library. Just snugly clothes, playing at home and lots of naps.

As an aside if anyone has any ideas on how to get rid of a chesty cough please share! Its mostly when she lies down to sleep that she coughs. I have her bed elevated and have been putting breathe easy essential oil on her pillow and rubbing vicks on her when she lets me.

milo and biscuits for afternoon snack

"Helping" mum water the garden

Just after this photo was taken she pointed the hose at the sky and then yelped in surprise when the water rained down on her.

rainbow cupcakes.

Its just food colouring, but we had lots of fun and blue lips by the end.

Homemade cream cheese and raspberry danish for breakfast. Recipe is from here. Can't wait to try chocolate next time.
Breakfast with Doggy and Blanky. Doggy has been somewhat superseded by blanky these days.

Cubby's under Kaisha's bunk.

I want to turn under her bunk into a proper cubby as a christmas present. This one was just made with a towel and her blanket but I would like to sew her some curtains with tiebacks and cushions and make it into a permanent little house.

Oh and after our being restful and quiet this weekend on Saturday afternoon Kaisha's nose started to run yet again and by bedtime she was completely stuffed up again. So we had another restless night and to top it all off she has the beginning of conjunctivitis starting this morning. Ahh the joys of daycare in winter.

Kingscliffe Weekend

We spent the weekend in Kingscliffe which is a little beach town in Northern NSW just below the gold coast. We stayed with Justin, Louise, Reuben and Zeke in a 3 bedroom townhouse that was bigger and nicer than our house! By complete coincidence David, Beth, Beau and Delta were staying 2 minutes down the road which was great. Saturday Louise and I wandered the farmers markets while the dads and kids played on the beach. They then went for a swim in the heated pool followed by a lazy afternoon reading while the kids slept off all the excitement. The condon's joined us for dinner. A fun weekend!

Our house
















Drawing


Cheeessseee!

Were going to the Beach!

We are going away this weekend. Yay! I'm so excited! Even tho it probably won't be that restful what with having a 2 year old that doesn't sleep that well, I'm looking forward to the change. Walks on the beach, building sandcastles and drinking hot chocolate at seaside cafe's.

Catch Up

Its been a busy weekend here.
On Monday I stayed home with Kaisha so on Thursday I went into work for a couple of hours. With Kaisha. As she is still coughing I didn't like to ask anyone to have her as all my babysitters have kids themselves. I just needed to whip up a lip balm so took a laptop, some dvd's and colouring in things. There is a desk in the lab with equipment on it out of the way of everyone so I made a cubby for her under the desk and set the laptop up on the a box. She was so good. It was all so different and people were coming and going and she was happy as. Towards the end of the 2 hours she started to pester a little so I finished up then. I needed to then distribute the lip balm to people before I left so we walked about dishing out lip balms to everyone. As I was going past the owners door he asked for a meeting !!!(I had ok'd bringing Kaisha in with him first). I went "umm I have Kaisha with me" and he goes "just bring her too". So I ended up sitting in the board room with both owners and the sales manager with Kaisha on my knee reporting on my latest projects. Was very surrel and went something like this. "I'm up to version 13 for this project and am quite happy with this one although it still needs tweaking as the pH isn't quite right yet, yes Kaisha you can have an orange when we are finished, and as I was saying the pH has to be lower for it to be preserved effectively". They really didn't seem to mind the interruptions tho so its good to know that in a pinch I can take Kaisha into work.
Friday we had mothers group here and William one of the little boys was turning 2 so we had a little party.

Photo time! - William, Joshua, Beau, Kaisha, Delta & Sienna. Jasmin is hidden by Delta's hat.

Cake time - I asked the kids to sit in the kitchen and eat their cake and they all lined up like this.

Saturday we had a lovely lazy day, I did some reading, some gardening and some playing with Kaisha. I also reorganised my kitchen cupboards which will have to count as my craft project this week as I haven't gotten around to anything else. Yes my sewing machine is still at the shop. I really must ring them up again. I am knitting Kaisha a scarf at the moment but I can only do it when she is asleep as she likes to "help" me knit it. This consists of her getting a knitting needle and poking it thru the knitting, not so helpful at all really so I only do it when she is sleeping. Anyway, back to my kitchen. The reason for the reorganise was another tupperware party I attended two weeks ago. Just a little bit more and I will be sorted "wink".


Isn't it beautiful! I keep leaving my cupboard doors open on purpose so I can stare at it.