Making daisy chains

Our special family

makingdaisychains — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:00:41 +0000

When Sarah and Hugh came over they brought lots of goodies with them for us. The gifts were thoughtful and well recieved! Family always know us the best and certainly know how to spoil us. One of the things that I loved the most of all though was some precious drawings from the cousins to our boys.

I loved the detail and the “story” that each of the pictures told. It is lovely to see what they deem important enough to put to paper. It really is priceless. Will sent a gorgeous picture for the boys to colour in – which has gone straight to the fridge – our place of importance!

Archie's drawing for Caleb

Fergus' drawing for Isaac

We are back….after a long break.

makingdaisychains — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:46:05 +0000

We lost our rhythm. No other explanation really. Matt was away on tour for five weeks and I was struggling by the end to keep blogging and continue everything else called life.

Since Matt returned (oh how sweet it has been!) we have had some Aussie friends and their kids staying with us, Stu and Tash Bade and their three kids Danielle, Andrew and Nicholas. (Matt went through University with Stu).

The kids loved having some new friends to play with and Matt and I thoroughly enjoyed having the adult interaction. We enjoyed sweet fellowship and encouragement, babysitting time as well as some terrific food (thanks Stu!). I particularly enjoyed a “girl’s only coffee date” with Natasha and Danielle. All in all a lovely time.

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Caleb and his creek

makingdaisychains — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:00:39 +0000

Caleb is my outdoor man. He will choose to play outside forever if I let him. We live on 1.5acres and it has an underground spring that runs at the back of our property when we get rain.

Caleb loves it! He completely gets into a zone all of his own. I love to watch him – it’s beautiful seeing his face light up and be completely absorbed in the moment.

Cupcakes…yummy!

makingdaisychains — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:00:16 +0000

We have a favourite recipe in our house right now. Cupcakes, vanilla, with fluffy (and fattening) icing.

Isaac is quite the whiz in the kitchen. He can crack eggs without the shell going in the bowl and enjoys using the electric mixer. Sad to say our beaters died just as we completed making some for Isaac’s final day at Mother’s Day Out!!! That was depressing.

I have yet to go and buy another, but given the need to keep busy these next few weeks I have just placed that purchase at the top of our shopping list! We are going to venture out Grocery shopping tomorrow, so the cooking can continue. Oh yeah, and while I’m there I am going to count how many people manage to tell me – “Wow/Boy, you certainly have your hands full!” I don’t really understand the great need to point that out to someone who is well aware of that fact!!!

Anyway, that’s all for now!

Trying to keep busy…..

makingdaisychains — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:52:31 +0000

OK…..I’m not going to lie. The next three weeks are going to be long!!!!

Matt is away on a tour with Michael W. Smith. He is going to South Africa and Brazil.

I have made a tentative plan of events/activities to try to distract us. 21 days with three kids is totally doable – right?!

So far – painting:

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Sarah’s birthday….

makingdaisychains — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:16:34 +0000

I decided to take my sister Sarah out for Afternoon Tea as a treat for her birthday. (I won’t mention how old she turned :) - you stop counting after 30 right?) We went to a cute little High Tea restaurant that has recently opened up in Spring Hill. If you’d seen me you may have mistaken it for my birthday (I was pretty excited), I don’t get out much!

It was very cute! http://www.homesteadmanor.com/

We had a table in the “Hat Room”. Hats were hung from the wall and we were encouraged to try them on by the staff. Sarah and I were the only ones in the room game enough!

The best part? (Besides the delicious Tea and sumptuous food). It was an extra special time chatting with my precious sister. Missing ya Sar Sar!

I had "Caramel"Tea and Sarah "Romantic" - both very nice!

Too many to choose - seriously!

Doesn't she look gorgeous!!

I LOVE this one on Sar! So classy!

Me - trying to pull off being posh!

Hmmmmm!

Sweets!

Outside barn/shed! Garden was beautiful.

Eating on my own…and only four teeth to my name!

makingdaisychains — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:00:39 +0000

Jack’s first tooth came through as he turned one in January. So approximately 5 months of solid food sans teeth would seemingly be difficult? It didn’t seem to slow him down. Actually he gets pretty annoyed if he isn’t served the same as his two older brother’s, and heaven help you if you try to help spoon feed him!

5 months later and he only has four teeth….let’s just say the kid can eat, don’t let his size fool you!

Classic.

The boys and their sleeping positions

makingdaisychains — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:30:12 +0000

After the boys are finally settled and asleep for the night, Matt and I often check on them before we hit the hay.

I always find it amusing to go in and see the positions that the boys are in. I decided that I would keep a record with the camera for a week at 9pm.

All three boys sleep in the same room, which can produce all sorts of shenanigans. Typically on any given night you will find Caleb sleeps with a thousand toys and books – how we don’t know. Isaac is usually found heavily snoring. Jack is our light sleeper and wakes at the slightest noise.

Just thought it was precious. Don’t they look like angels when they are asleep?

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Tug of war. Caleb v’s Kaylee the dog

makingdaisychains — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:46:56 +0000

These photos show an amusing war between Caleb and Kaylee taken at Matt’s Auntie and Uncle’s farm. I only wish that I had caught the spar on video.

Kaylee assumed that they were in for a fun game. Caleb misunderstood his playful banter, and well you can see the result from the photos.

Neither was going to give in and let go of that stick. Highly amusing. I don’t know where Caleb gets that strong and stubborn streak!

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Daddy’s on the road again

makingdaisychains — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:25:41 +0000

It’s official. We are all missing Matt being away. The only thing keeping me sane is having my sister here, who constantly has 3 little shadows following her in quick pursuit. Uncle Hugh is developing a wonderful friendship with the boys for different reasons.
Since going to Disney last month, Isaac is desperate to go back “to the Hotel!” So at an attempt to lessen the frequency of Isaac bringing up this impossible request, Hugh cleverly made a 3-D version of the Hotel on the computer. It has huge guitars, a very cool pool complete with Disney characters and even hot chocolate just like the Disney Resort. Isaac loves that he can make these previously crazy requests and that they in a matter of minutes can be produced by the clever Hugh.
Caleb is constantly to be found flying a little toy plane around the house (with sound effects of course)! To Hugh’s delight, (being quite the Aviator buff) he has found a little prodigy in the making with Caleb. They both enjoy spending lots of time together previewing the many flying videos found on YouTube.
With all this love and attention the only question I ask myself is, “How on earth am I going to cope without them”!