Two and a half years old

WOW doesn't time fly!

Today my lovable, tantrum throwing, funny and clever baby boy is 2.5.

We had a busy day. We went to say happy birthday to Alanah and then went down to the lakes for a play at the park. You love the slippery dip. When we walked down to the water you were calling the sharks "shark come". When we got to the jetty you said "oh no shark..gone". You loved looking at the boats and god excited at the littlest things... I love it when you see something new (like dirt in the water) and you point and shake and say "mum, mum...ohhhhh look mum". after an hour at the park we went to Liverpool to get some fruit and a quick look at Spotlight. You asked for a continental frankfurt at the Deli and walked around the mall munching on it! You are soo independent...you don't want to sit in the stroller and you want to ride the escalator all the time. We stopped off on the way for tickets to the circus and then took some shots with Russell. "idontwantto" is your fav word and after getting some great shots ONLY to discover I was using the settings I set up for outdoors and they were all dark. Getting you to sit down for more photos involved me popping out from behind the camera SCREAMING my lungs out in a game of peek-a-boo (worried the neighbours might call the police).

You have 100 expressions and you are soooo funny when you tell a story as you laugh at yourself and throw your hands around in the air!

After your nap we watched a Wiggles DVD and danced around! Between us we finished off 2 punnets of strawberrys! I was on the phone and you stuck 3 pegs to the heater and turned it on....i was quick to save the melting pegs! For the first time in months you let me put on a non Wiggles DVD next {Max and Milly}! We played some more and Daddy got home after a long day with our Chinese dinner. I love the way you eat veges and you love curry like daddy. You then went out in the garage to play with dad/ All of a sudden it was 8.30 pm and i had lost rack of time. I was folding clothes and tiredness had set in. Nothing could calm you and you threw a 20 minute tantrum. "no nappy" so i walked away, then you screamed "nappy on". You had hit the wall. i managed to calm you with a puppy book and you fell asleep in 1 minute.

thanks for another great day baby boy....you will always be my baby boy!

YOU at 2.5!

• You are obsessed with the Wiggles and adore Jeff.
• idontwantto is one word and you use it alot these days.
• You are so independent and insist on doing most things yourself, including walking down the stairs. when i try to help you always say " no me".
• You hate having your nappy changed. Whn i say you can wear undies you say "NO...idontwantto".
• While the water is boiling for your morning weet - bix you start to eat one dry. You say "mess mum...mess" and I push the crumbs in your bowl and you nod in approval!
• When you wake early (7.30am) you don't snuggle in with me anymore, you want a DVD on, oh I miss the days when we went back to sleep!
• You only hear me speak occasionally.
• you said your name for the first time in July, you refused to say it to me for many months.
• You love jumping on the bed. Since you cant get up you turn the clothes basket upside down and climb up.
• you love your little $20 trike and speed around the tiles on it. i love it when you take your wiggles dolls for a ride and talk to them.
• I love it when you say "mum, the sun is in bed" at night time and then in the morning you say "the sun is up".
• You ask if Dad is home everyday, but when he is home you say "no mum do it".
• You stopped calling a drink a blawah- blawah and started to call it a dink, I was sad to see that cute little quirk go.
  
• If I tell you something is gone or not working you shake your head and say “oh dead”.
• You love diggers and trucks and get excited when we see them on the road.
  
• You love to drink fresh passionfruit from a cup, and you get cranky when I steal some. You love cake and love it when it is someones birthday as it means you will get some CAKE!!!!
• When people talk to you in the shops you are sometimes unfriendly and say "no go".
• What hasn't changed - you still love puppies, your favourite word is still MINE and you love cords, power and anything with a switch. You still always ask to play in the car when we get home.

Happy 8th birthday Alanah!

this sweet little girl got a SURPRISE trip to Disneyland today! She opened the pressie at 9.30am and left the house for LA at 10.30! you gotta love stories like this - and deep down i wish i was her!

photoshop elements 6

I am loving it!

WOW ever since doing Janine's photography course I have been obsessed! In June (when I was snowed under with reports) I learnt sooo much about my camera but have only had the time to play NOW!

I am loving her tips. It is hard to get GOOD shots of Max these days as he is always on the move. I have resprted to practising on LITTLE PEOPLE (by fisher price).

I can't wait to August 17 for my next photoshop course!

My little ROCk star!

It is pouring, the holidays are officially over and I am catching up on Max's journal.
NOTE TO SELF take this holiday list and complete a lot of it next holidays!!!! lol
I started to look through some photos and forgot about how much I laughed last Thursday (10 July). Max and I got home from an evening at the shops (maybe it was the dough-nut) and we walked into the kitchen. He just grabbed his mike and started to entertain me, singing
"laaa long la, rahh rahh, ummmmm, rah rah!!!!, oooo ooooh oh yeah!!!!!! "
All he needs is a nappy box for a stage and he is READY to entertain!
I moved the box today actually and when he woke up from his sleep he pointed and cried "oh oh gone, no ...my up ......gone!!!!"

and a bow at the end!

today he made me laugh again as I got him some baby love nappies as they were on special and they have the Wiggles on them!
When I showed him he had the biggest FIT, crying NO, NO! I asked him why and he said

"Jeff, ..no poo....on Jeff" GREAT!!!! $50 bucks well spent! I will stick to Winnie the POOH (pardon the pun) until we are in undies!!!! Oh hang on i bought Wiggles undies - at least I will know he wont wet his pants!

thanks my little man for 2 fantastic weeks of holidays, I loved out PJ days, our trip to the farm, our adventures at play centres, shopping, feeding the ducks, riding your bike, fixing the computer, our picnic with Tayla and Alanah and lots of Wiggles DVDs. I love spending my holidays with you, it makes me happy that I am in a job where I can be with you every ten weeks for a nice break! LOVE YA Maxi

back to reality tomorrow!!!!

Narelle I hope you are feeling better, I am thinking of you. It is not nice being really sick in the holidays, get well soon.

celebration

I am writing to say for the first time since about Christmas there is no ironing basket in this house. NOT one bit of ironing to be done, there are 2 loads of washing waiting to be hung out tomorrow but no ironing.
I also have a SMASHING looking program for term 3. I have organised pen pals for Flat Stanley in Texas, planned some FANTASTIC maths activities and a fantastic Olympic program!!!

on the sad side I have not scrapbooked in 4 weeks (that is SAD i know).

Whatever happened to the slack ironer, teacher that planned weekly (ie Sunday night before) and scrapbooked till dawn in the holidays??????? All the scrapbookers out there need to SLAP me!

Jeff Wiggle we do love you!

WOW I spent 2 hours today trying to upload my 400 plus photos from my 350D, no matter what I did (reinstalled/deleted software 100 times) it did not detect my camera.

FINALLY I found a troubleshooting section on the Canon website and it turns out I have my PC connection on my camera turned off......!!!!!!! Don't know how it happened but gee it wasted some precious time.

Anyway since I now have my photos uploaded I have no photo editing software as Daz bought me elements 6 and I am waiting for it to arrive, I am tooo lazy to load 4 on as it will arrive tomorrow in the post. ANYWAY back to the point of this post!

Last Friday a Wiggles play centre opened at Villawood (20 min from home). We love the centre at Seven Hills and the add said Jeff was going to be there and since Max refers to Wiggles DVDs as "Jeff on" I knew he would love to meet him! So Veronika, the kids and I got there and joined the line an hour before the centre opened.

The line grew and grew and I started to wonder where they may put all these people......no management or staff really appeared and people were starting to push in the very badly organised line! The staff announced the first 200 would get in, great as we counted and we would make that. When the doors opened there was no real respect for the line, people just pushed and the 4km line became one MASS crowd. ALL that was needed was for management to come out and give the first 200 people tickets, stamps WHATEVER but no they were sooooooooo disorganised and DUMB. People were booing and kids were crying. Here's my little boy heart broken when I said we had to go home.

The centre had to do something...I tell you there was 1000s of angry people! I should have been inside, instead children who were behind us in the line and had RUDE pushy mothers were inside and I had to explain to a 2.5 year old that he was not going in. Come on these guys sell out the entertainment centre 5 times over and they weren't expecting a crowd.

After some "we want Jeff chanting", he appeared and I tell you he is such a sweetie. Jeff spent over an hour outside! He was sooo kind and was happy to get 100s of photos taken and he signed Max's Jeff doll for him!

we then drove to Seven hills and had a great play and danced with Dorothy...WOW what a lucky little boy! It was a great day and we BOTH slept when we got home, we woke up at 5.30pm and had to rush off to Alyssa's birthday party and WOW her mum cooks a FANTASTIC cake...YUM! We were out until 11pm, we are such party animals!!!!

oh Summer days

I love this LO it sooo reminds me of warm summer days and lazy afternoons in the pool! It was 14 here yesterday so I am really missing days like these. Look at these 3 cuties. They would have been Quads but Zoe left before the fridge raid began.

I am glad Max has playmates his age, as they grow up I am happy they will keep each other company in school holidays and on weekends

I have spent many hours uploading fonts, i tunes, picasa, favourites, printer software, photoshop elelments, sorting documents and video footage. My computer has had a massive clean up and I love how fast it now is!

Tonight back to the school work and fingers crossed I will be scrapping by Wednesday.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!

Late Wednesday night my computer stopped working! OMG I was soooooo BORED. I had to resort to cleaning the house!!!!

the good news- all my photos and documents were saved. I am NOW the proud owner of a 19 inch flat screen (so everything is bigger and better) and I have faster working bits in my tower lots more grunt (no idea of technical names!!! LOL!!!)

the bad news - I lost ALL my email addresses, downloaded programs, FONTS!!!!!, the 265 emails I was saving as they were toooooo important to delete, MY FAVOURITES and I have no idea how to get into MSN as my hotmail email was on remember me and so i don't REMEMBER it! Belinda V I know you can help there!!!!

The sweet man who fixed my computer (QUICKLY) was sorry about this but said he had no idea WHY I would want to save fonts (over 400 fantastic fonts LOST), favourites or emails from 2006!!!! HELLO!!!!!!

SO please if you like me, and we have conversed by email before drop me a line so I can save your addy!!! or if you have any suggestions for my favourites send me some too as I lost over 50 great educational web sites and about 100 scrapbooking favs. Thank goodness for bloglines or I would have lost all of my blogs too!!!!!!!

I tell you I get more sleep when this machine is in the repair shop! Off to reload HEAPS of programs and download some of my fav handwriting fonts!

have a great Sunday!

blog award!

I am addicted to blog surfing!
face book not soooo much my cup of tea, I like it but....!!! I dont know ...blogs well I cant go a day without logging into bloglines and seeing what the scrapping world is up to, plus a few more creative people I have met along the way!
I have made online buddies through blogs and I know some friends tell me I am weird (or dont tell me, they just think it) I dont care as I love my blog, it is addictive and I love lots of my friends blogs.
Sheree gave me a blog award!!!! thanks Miss Sheree, I love your bloggy too! glad we became friends in cyber space, looking forward to another summer scrap with the kids one day, just hoping we get better weather for a swim this time!

there are many blogs I love, especially those in my side bar. There are many great blogs I visit because I am "friends" with that person.

1.Alison Miss A I have always wanted to scrap How this great craft brought us together and how now I have another great friend in my life. you know I love your work! PLus you UNDERSTAND my sayings like "6.85 of one and 233 of the other LOL!

2. Narelle I see you 3 days a week and it is SOOOOO not enough. working with you is a joy and I will follow you to your next school! we just need to scrap together MORE! I just sooooo wish you would come away with me in August to scrap, you would sooo love it

3. Alison J now you are coming away with us! I say it every holidays but we need to catch up more! cant wait to August!!!!

4. Helen I soooo love this ladies work plus she named her blog like her age too! I guess we will always both be 30 and 33!!!

5. Kim A Janine Lisa my buddies down SOUTH! love your work !!!

6. Shannon Tidwell this girl rocks, I soooo adore her work, but for some reason her blog is SLOW at home, it is made on a mac and I just cant get it to load! I will have to try it at school on the mac as I simply love everything she does

7. Raylene my teacher buddy from VIC I love your style and witt, you crack me up! i think your link has changed......i wont link you but I miss your blog, glad you still chat at KSK..........i must find you again!

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2. Place a link to the person that send you the award

3. Give the Award to at least 7 other Scrapbooking-Blogs, which by its currency,the issues of choice and for their designs are especially noteworthy

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holidays are here!!! YIPPPPPEEEEEE

What a great way to start 16 WORk free days!!!!

lots of Champagne, sing star, yummy food and good girlfriends!!

ANOTHER morning of crawling into bed after 3am, and another Nanna nap today as my b

Tina and I last nights at Karen's place!

HOLIDAY LIST

the basic rules are...... no scrapbooking until all the ironing and Term 3 program is DONE! If I put my head down and DO it I plan to see my supplies my at least Wednesday!

I also need to...

work out a storage system in Max's new room and hide away some pressies.

clean out my wardrobe.

continue to update my slip in photo albums.

organise tax documents so i can get some $$ back

start to make a quilt for Max

Do Kim's online classes

put many layouts inton albums

catch up on my notes and journaling

walk everyday and eat well

clean out the drawers in the hutch

sell a few things from my TO SELL basket on ebay

take Max out to the farm and to see Wags at the Wiggles play centre

relax!!!

sleepy head

I survived the toy sale!!! thanks for all the calls and messages, LOL. Numbers were really down this year! I guess BIG W was open too, but after the initial rush in Kmart it as dead by 1am, except the HORRID lay by line! We did big W too and it was quiet at 2.30 am ! I was curled up in bed by 3.15am. there was lots of laughs as usual but I am tooooo tired to type! I had a two hour Nanna nap today and am feeling tired NOW!!!!

Here is a LO I did at the retreat i was very inspired by Vanessa's trees from 2 crafty! She cuts and sells all her own chipboard. I love this naked tree, adding the buttons was sooo much fun at 2am Vanessa was soooo nice to sit with at the retreat, thanks for the laughs Miss Vanessa, I hope to come and visit with Maxi these school holidays as I need some of your funky chipboard owls!!!

1 day to go at school. I have been invited to a girl friends house tomorrow night for drinks and DVDs, I just sooo want to come home and VEG!!!! but I will go as I know I will have a great laugh

roll on holidays!!!!