It's getting warm.....

I went to Mom and Dad's place this afternoon while Jade was sleeping to drop over their DVD player - and Rob said that he'd bring Jade down after she woke... (she went down quite easily just before 1pm - and woke at 4pm... she's had a busy day!)...

It's really starting to get warm - unfortunately Mom and Dad's pool doesn't reflect this yet... so we pulled out Jade's paddling pool (we bought it for her when she was about 8weeks old)... we gave Jade the hose to fill it... (Little Miss Independance)... plus it kept her occupied for a bit longer....

The paddling pool has little seats built into it - so she sat on the seat while playing in the pool - until the end of the arvo when she realised it was less effort to just sit in the water....

****FLASHBACK****

Can you believe it's been nearly 3yrs??? (2 more sleeps and she'll be 3! and if you're around - she'll tell you about it!!!)

Wouldn't you just kill for a stomach like this????

Jade hurt her toe getting back into the pool the one time... but she kissed it better - and it was all fixed!!

Mom was watering the lawns and various plants - and then started watering Jade... This was all fun and games until Jade got hold of the hose later and wanted to spray Mom - who wasn't wanting to play anymore!!!

Teething??? (surely she's got enough teeth!!)

For dinner, we had tacos... well - with burrito thingies... (I've never claimed to do things the correct way - but we like it this way - so we're not going to change....) Tonight, Jade decided that she'd make her own... we bought her mini-tortilla's and she managed to eat 2 of them... she had more fun making them than eating them... but she's still not big on the whole dinner process... she's too tired by dinner time...

We definitely make the cutest kids in our family!!!

Got Jade's school pics back yesterday... and I have to say - without a doubt, that our family makes the best and cutest kids ever!

Unfortunately Jade still hasn't got the whole concept of smiling on command... but she's not yet 3 - so pffft to anyone who's gonna tell me that this isn't normal....

But, as you can see, Xander is additional proof that we just make the most adorable kids ever!! (Jade isn't simply a fluke....) The rest of the kids attached to our family are 100% adorable too.. but you'll have to take my word for it - cause Xander is the only one that Jade really gets to see.....

I was going to post Jade's class photo too - cause you can see that she's one of the cutest in her class - and I could have shown you the pic of her boyfriend... but I don't want to offend any parents who don't want their kids pics online... so - you'll just have to take my word for it...

Footy is over!

Footy season is over for another year... Greg is currently looking into what sports he can play over summer, so I'll update you on that when he decides....

This Group is Greg's Rep Team - believe it or not - he played a Rep Game before he'd even played any other sort of game of Rugby... Their rep team did have their butts handed to them - and there were only about 6 games in total..

This is Greg's normal team, they won most of their games all season - but lost in the Grand Final.

As you can probably tell, Greg put more effort into his appearance for the first photo... I'm not sure if the second one was a surprise photo shooot - I remember Rob dropped him off for the Rep photo.

The Kubby House

Being that it's school holidays, there was no swimming this morning... so I called Candita (Dylan and Carden's mother) - and Natalie (Marcus & Russell's mother) to see if they wanted to go to the Kubby House (new name for Sea Urchins - new owners and wot-not)....

Natalie is from Swimming, but I know Candita from Jade's school... but the three older kids are pretty much the same age, Dylan and Marcus will be in Kindy next year, but because of the cutoff... Jade has to wait til the following year.... but it's ok...

Anyway, we met there at 9:30 - and we managed to drag the kids out of there at 12... (when we used to take Jade there - we'd be lucky if we made it til 11am.... but it helps when she's got her own friends to run around with)...

All in all, we had a great morning...

Trials Comp - Deep Creek Rd - 21st September

This may be my last trial for the year... depending on how I'm feeling next month... but bush walking with a huge belly isn't overly appealing - especially now that it's heating up... but we had a great day anyway....

Jade seems to have given up the whole "feral" act... (so we definitely think it was just that she'd gotten sick of being sick with the cold.. .and now she's back to the delightful child we though we'd lost....) - she was perfect all day.... and at the end of the day - she helped Ken give out the medals to all the place getters....


At the last trials comp, Ken (pictured below) had his butt handed to him by Dad.... so he decided he needed to go back to basics and learn to ride again.... so he came complete with his fluro orange jacket and L Plates.... he also had streamers attached to his handlebars which apparently were to cause wind resistance and slow him down in the sections.... (and for those who aren't aware -- Cedric = my dad -- he had to give Ken some pointers before they started riding for the day....)

Monkey Mac.... Just hanging around....

Frank warming up before riders briefing....

Rob hiding in the trees....

My little bushwalker.... Jade loves getting out and dirty.. and believe me... when she bathed last night - the water in the bath had turned a lovely shade of brown!

Dad

Wobz

Jade decided to cling to Zoe... so we know where to dump her when we get to the next trial!

Jade handing out Medals.... (she was fascinated by all the young guys...)

Jade got given a medal herself - for helping out Ken with the prizegiving... (it was a leftover trophy that Jade was actually quite disappointed that she hadn't given out - and she wasn't willing to retire as medal hander-out-erer until all of the medals had been given out)

Xander - Bicycle and more Xander!

Tuesday night I picked up Xander from school when I picked up Jade (luckily they go to the same place - so it was just a case of trying to get 2 kids into the car instead of just one).... we headed around to Mom and Dad's place for a bit - we were hoping that getting Xander on Jade's bicycle may encourage her to ride some more.... but no.. that idea was a flop....

Xander is a little too cautious... so he wasn't overly impressed with the idea of riding without training wheels... so we ended up leaving there early and getting the kids back to our place...

I phoned Jaime and made sure it would be ok for Xander to have a bath and have dinner at our place as we weren't sure when Damian would be finished at work (and Jaime was in bed with a migraine - so she was happy enough to not have to worry about bathing and feeding Xander)






I'm sure bath time is always more fun when there's someone else in there to entertain you....

After they'd finished in the bath, I'd got dinner ready - so they got out and came out to eat, then had time to kill until Damian arrived... so they went through into the "baby's room" to play with toys.... little did I know that Xander is a clever little monkey and went into the cupboard and emptied the TWO big boxes of baby toys in the cupboard... ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!!! I thought that it was just from the one box - so I wasn't too worried about it ... until i went in there today.... I really should have taken a photo of it... the Nursery looked just as bad as it did before Mom and I did the big clean up last week!

I cleared it all away today - put the boxes back in the cupboard - because the mission for tomorrow is to build the change table (that we picked up today)... I should probably explain that.. I ordered the change table back at the end of July - but I was told that the wait on delivery would be between 6-8 weeks - I figured that was ok becuase I still had ages before puggle was due... so today, I still hadn't heard anything so I phoned the baby shop.... "oh, that came in AGES ago... well called you and didn't hear anything - so I think we've sold it....." so I'm standing there in disbelief.... "But I paid for it!?!?!??!!?!" "yeah, but you didn't collect it - so we weren't sure if you still wanted it....." ..... "But I paid for it!?!?!??!?!?!" (and it wasn't just a deposit - it was a full payment - figuring I was doing the right thing!)

Anyway, she said she'd call me back - and when she called they'd miraculously found it - so I'm not sure if i've got someone else's that was put on layby or something - or whether they truelly had mine put aside..... When I arrived at the shop I asked about nappy covers as we've still got the plan to use cloth nappies - so of course I was bombarded with "have you considered this, this this and this?!"... and I'm sure - if this was my first pregnancy and I didn't already have a million cloth nappies - I may have been persuaded to look into the $30 nappies... but I just don't see the point now - the cloth nappies we used with Jade were great... and they were white - so they went with everything.. and for when we wanted to go out - I just bought nappy covers that cost all of about $6 and had a few of them to rotate when needed.... But, I have a couple of friends who have used the Bambino nappies - so I may look into those for night nappies - or I may just use the disposables at night again - I'm not 100% decided on that.... (Sarah - Bec - Penny - Help!!!!)

Anyway, back to the rest of the week, we went around to Mom and Dad's on Wednesday afternoon for more bicycling... she wasn't OVERLY excited by the whole experience and got bored quickly again... I think once Jade and Xander are riding together it'll be more exciting... but while it's just Jade we may have a few problems... but we got vid of her going further this time...

On Friday afternoon, Jaime called just as I was going to leave to pick up Jade to see if I wanted to do anything that afternoon, so I picked up Jade and Xander and met up with Jaime down at the Marina Park... "oooooh Pirate Ship Park!!!!!" (I think all of the Play Parks around town have different names given by the kids)