Kaisha's 3rd birthday.

We had Kaisha's Birthday today. Her birthday isn't actually until the 22nd of December but as she is young enough, and I wanted to have the time to give her a proper birthday, I decided to pick a day and do it early. Below are heaps of pictures of the day, be warned!

A look of delight

on spotting her present from Nana & Grandad

From Laura

And from Mama & Dad

Cooking in the Kitchen. Mama & Dad then went off to get the party ready while Kaisha stayed at Nana's to play with her new toys.

Helping Nana make butterfly cakes

All set up

Presents from Maeve

and Reuben

Beau

and Sienna

Cake

Blowing out the candles

Helpers in the kitchen

Cookie decorating
Treats to put on the cookies

Beau

Reuben

Sienna

Maeve

And Kaisha

Party favours

We all had a great day and Kaisha was exhausted by the end but held up like a trooper. She had fallen asleep tonight before I even got out of the room which is a first.

Its a .........................

BOY!

We are doing blue this time around. I had my 20week scan today and everything went really well.


This photo was taken by Kaisha and I thought I looked kinda glowing finally. At week 19 the nausea has FINALLY stopped and I am starting to develop a normal relationship with food again. Unfortunately the sciatica is starting to hurt just like it did last time round. Ahh the joys of being pregnant. I'm getting lots of kicks and nudges these days which I love and am still really tired and needing a nap if I can manage it. Yesterday I put a DVD on for Kaisha and went to bed as she was refusing to sleep and yelling the house down. I woke up 40minutes later to this.

Yes that is toilet paper. She had shredded half a roll.

Mango Mango

Fish & Chips at Redcliffe

We had fish and chips at Redcliffe with a bunch of friends last week. The mosquito's were fierce but the sunset was amazing and the kids got on relatively well so a fun time was had by all.

Kingscliffe Holiday

We spent the last week in Kingscliffe with mum and dad. So nice to have a proper beach holiday! The weather was not too bad, only 1 really overcast day and about 3 nice sunny days so not bad at all.

Looking out at the pool from our balcony. It was freezing but lovely to lie beside. Luckily there was a spa that was nice and warm!

Kaisha and Grandpa in the spa. Kaisha spent hours swimming.

Me, Kaisha, Dad, Kaylene - Kaylene and Graeme came down and visited us.

Kaisha all ready for the beach.

Grandma & Grandpa and Kaisha at Tweed Heads Beach

This looks like a good place to eat chips.

Here I'll even share with you mama.

Chasing seagulls

Jumping on sandcastles.

Lunch

Bike riding with daddy.

Going really really fast!

Kaisha and Grandpa.

Update

Its the middle of October and I have only managed 1 post. About time for an update!

Kaisha on her bike. I discovered the other day that she can ride it! We don't really have enough flat surfaces around here but daycare obviously does.


Into mum's shoes again. Kaisha loves wearing my things and regularly comes clomping out with my high heels on or wearing a t-shirt as a dress.


Kaisha's Mask - she came home from daycare wearing the mask that she made and didn't take it off til dinner time.


My quilt. I'm half way thru sewing the large squares together to make the main top. Not sure that I'm going to have it finished by Kaisha's birthday tho!


Brisbane has gone from severe drought conditions to flooding in 2 years. A couple of years ago we were only allowed to use 130L per person per day and the dam levels were at below 20% (about 2 days supply of water for the city). Now the dams are all between 95-100% and they can't spill water out of them fast enough. So while the water sitting in the yard probably doesn't look like much to some people its the most we have ever seen in our 6 years of living in Brisbane.

Spring

The jacaranda's are blooming which means its Spring but there hasn't been much sign of it around here until this week. Usually September thru November we have beautiful temperate (20-28 degrees C) weather and the occasional afternoon storm. This September we have had low temps and rain, rain and more rain. The last 4 days we finally had some sunshine and temps of 28 of which I wasn't working for 1 day of. Of course its raining again today :(

I don't really have too much other news to impart. I'm back to feeling tired all the time and although I'm not being sick I'm still nauseous some of the time. Looking forward to going on holiday the end of next week! If anyone has any good books to recommend let me know.