We went to the park today

Matthew was in daycare today so we are going to go back tomorrow with a picnic...

Here are some photos from today

Spring has sprung

This weekend we have had beautiful weather! Spring is here, the days are warm and the nights are cool to sleep.

We bought the kids a water slide and they have spent the last 2 days getting soapy and slightly sunburned.....

Matthew wasn't that keen on the whole idea, you can tell he has 3 older sisters LOL.....pretty in pink

 

Eloise being so light didn't have to have much of a run up

Megan loved to slide on her knees

And Talia just loved to pull funny faces....

Needless to say they slept well.....

Joel is 5 months old.....where has the time gone

My baby is not a new born anymore. I took him to the child Health Nurse for his 4 month check up last week and he is 7kg and 66cm long.

Daddy and Joel.....

On the move again....

Yes its that time of my life again...we are moving.

Here is our new pool......

Our lease is up here so we looked around for something better in the same price range.

The girls will be moving school next term, but it is to a better school and they are pretty happy that it is only 400m from our house....

ohh and we have ducted aircon.... and a HUGE shed so all the clutter that drives me mad in this house can go out there....YAY

so we will be moving around the 16th Oct.....

now the fun of packing

Joel 19 weeks or 4 and half months

OK OK I have been really slack in my updates, but when you have a household FULL of chicken pox, kids home from school and a grumpy mum things get put on the back burner for a while.

So this morning I took a photo of Joel and had him weighed at the local chemist. He weighs 6.8kg and is 64cm long. I need to take him to the Child Health Nurse and get his immunizations done but that has to wait until he is all better.

You can still see where he had chicken pox on his face...

Over the next few days I will TRY and back date a few posts about what's been happening around here :)

Spotty Kid...

 

By the time Monday came both Joel and I were covered in chicken pox. The poor boy was miserable so we drove into Albany to find a chemist to get some stuff to make Joel feel a bit better.

While we were in mobile range the school rang to  inform me  that both girls had spots that were suspiciously like chicken pox. Great .... I had both girls and Matthew immunised back in  Victoria. Which doesn't stop them from getting just lessens the severity.

So even  though  we were going to stay a few more days we decided to go home the next morning.

Sightseeing, spots and all....

We thought as we had travelled 500km and 6 hours with grumpy child we might as well get out and do some sightseeing. Darian had never been to Albany before so we went and did the tourist things.

We first went to the wind farm, gee those things are huge and the blades make a great big whooshing sound as they rotate around.There are 12 in all and make quiet a impression being up close.

Once leaving there we went and saw the "Gap and Natural Bridge"

The sea was very calm so the swell wasn't that spectacular but I guess with small kids in tow it was better than 30 foot waves crashing above the top of the platform....

Poor Matthew who is terrified of heights was too worried to even look at the camera. He just wanted to go.

Time away cut short...

Darian finished up with his current job on Friday and since he had a week off before starting the new one we thought we would get out of the city for a few days.

I dropped the girls off at their dads on the Friday evening and packed enough stuff to get us through a few days in Albany. I was feeling pretty crook, bad headache and just feeling blah.

We headed off 9am Sat morn and got to dads place at about 2pm. We stopped quite often as Joel was grumpy and miserable. He has chicken pox and I was soon to join him.

We debated about going home straight away but dad didn't mind so we stayed.

Joel at 16 weeks

The boy is growing fast, just seems like yesterday that I was writing a post about being 16 weeks pregnant. Time is going so quick.

Joel is becoming very social, loving to chat and he has discovered his hands. He is almost laughing but not quite there yet.

15 weeks

Just some pics of Joel in the Jolly Jumper

Look what we got the kids!!!!!

I'm not sure who is going to have more fun?

Daddy and Joel

Joel taking it all in....

 

Matthew ready to jump

 

We thought about a trampoline but this only takes 45 seconds to blow up, has a roof and is removable.....

School Photo Time...

We got the girls school photos back today...

They cost a small fortune but worth it...

I think this a nice photo of Eloise, at least she is smiling.

Poor Talia didn't want to smile and show her plate, plus I think the photo it self is over exposed.

Thursday Thirteen #6

Over the next few weeks I am going to post 12 of my most favourite things about each of the kids...

Of course in no particular order and I will start with Talia..

1. Her hair, I know she hates it and I empathise with her because I hated my curly hair as a child too. But it is just so beautiful

2. Her compassion and empathy towards others

3. Her optimism

4. Her caring nature towards others

5. Her love of books and reading

6. Her understanding that times and money are tight and the fact that she accepts this without real complaint or resentment . She is not a " I want" kid

7. Her sense of humour, its very dry, she doesn't laugh out loud very often but Its beautiful when she does.

8.Her eyes, they are so blue and soft

9. Her eyelashes, they are so very long, thick and dark

10.  The fact that she "gets" Maths....something  I never did and always struggled with

11. She will get up in the middle of the night if Matthew cries to be with him, and then only tell me in the morning that he was upset.

12. She has a strong inner strength and she will stand up for something she truly believes in,

13. Just because she is who she is, and I hope as she grows into an adult she keeps most of these qualities.

Its been a long time....

And I have been so busy. It has been about 3 weeks since I have done a proper "what's happening in our life" post so here goes.

Joel is now 14 weeks old, I had him weighed and measured last week but cant find the piece of paper that had them on. I think he weighs 6.4kg. Once I find it I will update properly. I have been that busy that I haven't even taken any photos these last 3 weeks...bad.

The poor little man ended up getting the cold that went through the house. He ended up being the sickest and on antibiotics for a ear and sinus infection, he was a very miserable boy there fir a week or so. He also ended up getting conjunctivitis in both eyes to add to his misery. He is almost over it apart from a bit of a cough.

He has now moved into his cot and we spent last weekend moving the cot out of Matthews room into Megan's room, so Joel now shares with Megan. He looks so tiny in a BIG cot...

Matthew also ended up- getting the dreaded cold and it went straight to his chest. So while fighting that he was having a block of speech therapy that has now finished and seeing the pediatrician to see if he could be eligible for the Language development centre next year, unfortunately he isn't as will be going to mainstream kindy (we are going to try for an aid for him)

He has now started a block of physio and OT. The physio did a full assessment on him as she was new and Matthew is very weak in his glutes, quads and hands so we will be working on those areas leading up to kindy.

Last Wednesday he had his 4 year old immunisation and yesterday we went to PMH for his Neuro appoint....YAY. We have some good news, his muscles are fine, no nasties there. So it seems that the reason for his poor muscles tone and balance is not the muscles at all but joint hypermobility. So it is off to see the orthopaedic team about his joints and spine (not sure what's wrong there but the physio mentioned it).

Took this photo the other day...too cute

Thursday Thirteen #5

Thirteen Things I do every day...



1. make my bed

2. Have many cups of coffee

3. Do 1 or more loads of washing

4. Check my email

5. Read my blog roll

6. Load the dishwasher

7. Change at least 4 nappies

8. Run the bath water

9. Brush my teeth

10. Feed the fish

11. Tell each of the kids that I love them

12. Make either breakfast, lunch or dinner....usually all 3

13. Kiss my hubby goodnight :)

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Joel at 12 weeks.....

I have been a bit slack in updating Joel on here. I get busy and another week goes past. Also I am finding it hard to get a nice photo of him.

He is now smiling and talking all the time. He loves to be chatted to and is very social.

He is spending more time awake and has a sleep in the morning at about 10 and then another cat nap in the afternoon. He then has some awake time and has another sleep between 5-8...which is handy as feral hour is a nightmare when the odd times he is awake and grumpy.

He then has some awake time between 8-9pm which is daddy time and then sleeps until 2-3am. Then he is up at 6am and the day starts all over again :)

Occasionally this routine goes AWOL but he is pretty good

What Goodies Eloise Got?

Eloise scored well this birthday...

she got

 

A Nintendo DS from Mum, Darian, Dad and Sue. Talia and Megan gave her a game each and Matthew gave her some accessories to go with it.

Tamagotchi V5 from her school friend Lauren

This nail design boutique from her school friend Vladdy.

She also received a horsy pillow from the precious family, haven't got a photo yet...will post one when I get the pillow out of birthday girls clutches...

Nana and Poppe Kimpton bought her a necklace with a Diamond E pendant...too small to photograph...

So Miss Eloise is a happy girl

Happy 8th Birthday Eloise

Tuesday was officially Eloise's Birthday but she was with her dad, it is her year for a party so I organised for her to have it at Hungry Jacks....no more parties at my house....too much stress.

She was allowed to invite 8 people from her class, so she chose 4 boys and 4 girls.

I was so slack I even organised a cake from Woolies to be made for the occasion

So apart from immediate brothers and sisters, cousins and close friend only 2 class mates turned up ( I was a bit peeved as only 3 people RSVP) I felt for Eloise but she really didn't mind as she was having  a great time with the people that were there.

Big sister Talia

Little sister Megan

Matthew who has a cold and wasn't feeling the best

 

Baby Joel who just took it all in...

The kids played some games, Eloise opened some presents and then it was time for cake...

I ordered a big cake as there was to be 14 plus kids, there ended up being 8 plus adults....

Blowing out the candles ...

The cake was really yummy.

All in all it was a nice afternoon, Her dad and step mum came and Aunty Jacquie and kids.

I will do another post on the presents she got.