Driveway Fun..... Videos

All the Videos from 21st August - Driveway fun......

Jade - Scooter 1

Jade - Scooter 2

Jade - Scooter 3

Jade - Scooter 4

Blake - Trike 1

Blake - Muddy Foot

Jade - BMX

Blake - Strider Bike

Driveway Fun.....

Saturday 21st August.....

I took the kids out for the morning and while we were gone, Pete came over and fixed up the last bit of the driveway works.... Dirt up to the level of the concrete.... all the way around....

While Blake went for his sleep - I took Jade downstairs with her scooter to muck around on the driveway.....

No more trip hazard! :)

Jade has worked out how to use the brake on the scooter... :)

Once Blake woke, we brought him downstairs and let him play with his trike - I was getting him to the top of the driveway and letting him roll down... the pics don't show it - but there is a slope to the driveway - which works well for the kids :)

I had been watering the "dirt" to see if we can encourage some grass to grow - and of course Blake rode the bike off the concrete and into the mud....

He was most upset when he got his foot muddy....

About half an hour after Blake woke up, Mom and Dad came up to bring Jade's BMX and Blake's Strider bike up so that the kids could ride those on the driveway.....

Concerned look on Blake's face... not sure what it was about... but it was cute :)

Blake loves this spinny toy... he always holds it up to his face... I guess to feel the vibrations....

There are videos to come - but for some reason it's not letting me upload them at the moment... and I want to get some sleep - so I'm giving up for tonight - will post the videos tomorrow....

Sick little man......

Friday 20th August....

Friday morning - Blake got up to have breakfast - and ended up deciding that food was better off outside his stomach... he was sick.... twice.....

He spent the morning at Mom and Dad's place and I left work early to pick him up and get him home for a sleep....

He wasn't overly interested in eating.... he'd eaten some food at Mom and Dad's place - and when we got home he wanted his packet of Tiny Teddy's (his lunch box had been packed for school the night before - when I assumed he'd be going) - so I gave those to him and just left him to entertain himself for a bit.... I usually put him down at 1pm.... but I'd decided I'd put him down a little early on this day... so at 12:30 - I wandered into the lounge room to get him and put him to bed..... and this is what I found.....

Fast asleep with his packet of Tiny Teddy's - and his face firmly planted in the lounge.... he ended up sleeping til about 4:30pm.... He was then sick pretty much all weekend....

Painting for Grandad.....

Wednesday 18th August....

After picking the kids up from daycare we headed straight over to Mom and Dad's place.... not that this is highly unusual... but on this day I'd bought the kids art smocks as well as paint and paper and lettering so that they could do some Hand Paintings for Rob's Dad who is still in hospital...

Rob was flying down on Friday morning, and I needed to have them done and laminated before he left.....

Dry short hair.....

Blake in his Art Smock... and cuddles for GG

Jade & Blake in their Art Smocks...

The first lot of handprints on Blake's poster... after doing the first four - we realised we'd run out of room if we did four of each colour - so we then cut it back to 2....

Painting Blake's hands....

Placing the hands... this was interesting... some of his hand prints look like aliens have been there...

As soon as he was done he wanted the Smock off...

"oh, don't take my picture!"

Jade also wanted to paint Grandad a picture of a flower to make him feel better... we got this one laminated also....

Blake playing buttons with GG

Jade's hands are so big now that we could only fit one hand of each colour on the page....

Then it was time to leave.....

(At this point Harry decided it was safe to come home!)

He likes being carried, she likes playing mother hen... it's a win win!

When we got home the kids were very excited that they were allowed to walk over the new driveway.... and of course Blake walked off the other side - into a big puddle of mud - and then walked it back onto the driveway.....

Blake's footprints....

No more curly hair for Blake... for now....

Tuesday 17th August.....

Blake's hair was pretty much in his eyes.... you can see from previous posts that it was getting long and it was getting fluffy at the back from his "bed hair"...

I haven't had time to get him booked in at the hairdressers - so I thought we'd just clipper his hair with a #8 which isn't too short - just to see what he looks like with short hair.... it definitely grows quickly enough that if we didn't like it - it'd be grown back in no time....

Unfortunately, Blake wouldn't sit still - so a #8 made it very difficult to see what had been cut and what hadn't.... so we had to drop it to a #5 and just go all over..... so it's shorter than I would have wanted...

You can see he still has cranky eyebrows at this point... he didn't enjoy the haircut at all!

Jade's always willing to make it better....

Wave!

(not sure what Jade's doing - she's pulled her eye down or something.... wacky child!)

Much happier now that the cutting is most definitely over!

oh - and we believe the issue with his cheeks is because of teething.... he's cut the first 2nd year molar twice now - and it's covered over again - so I've given up getting excited about it cutting through.... I'll date it once it finally cuts through and stays through!

The Driveway!!!!!

Monday 16th August.....

We got back from swimming lessons to find that the concretor was busy boxing up the driveway.... these pics were taken once he'd finished and Blake was up from his afternoon sleep.....

Poor Jade was a bit confused and thought this was the finished product and went "He hasn't done a very good job, how am I supposed to walk on this???"

Tuesday 17th August....

Got home from work to find that they'd completed the driveway.... they were busy doing the "finishing" touches to it when I left for work... they just had to "brush" it so that it wasn't slippery at all.....

New council regulations meant that he's had to make the driveway go up more than he would have 4 months ago.... but, you gotta do what you gotta do.... but it meant that we had to leave the fencing up for a few days after it was dry enough to drive on (for Pete to come back and bring soil up to the edges) - because it was a trip hazard.....

It's just nice having a driveway that is concrete from the house all the way to the road - rather than to about 5 metres from the road and then dust and rocks for the rest....

This part of the slab is so that we can finally get the sliding gate put on.... (about time! now to just wait for Bruce to come and get that done)

Swimming Lessons.....

Monday - 16th August

This was the second week where Blake did everything in the pool with the swimming teacher and not with me... but this was his first week where I wasn't in the pool (the week before I was in the pool to make sure no kids escaped)

Blake wasn't overly excited about being in the pool without me... (although - I think that's a huge understatement.... watch the vids and you'll understand....

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Blake's swimming lesson - 1

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Blake's swimming lesson - 2

(if you pay particular attention to this one - when he gets back to the step - he's saying "up up" - he wanted to be picked up out of the pool and I just shook my head while filming... and that's why he puts his face into his hands and has a bit of a cry.... poor little guy! ehehe)

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Blake - Grandpa's Motorbike Birthday Card.....

This card was given to Dad for his birthday, Blake found it while we were at the shops - and it makes motorbike sounds - so, as far as Blake is concerned, this is the most amazing card in the whole wide world!!!!

Blake on the Oset

Sorry, this post should have been done before the Tannum BBQ...

Saturday 14th August.... (and this goes before the Birthday Cake pics too!)

Blake's taken an interest in riding Jade's Oset..... so Dad ran around behind him to make sure he didn't tip the bike over.... and to encourage him to use the accelerator....

The bike is set so that it can't really go above a brisk walk type speed, so there was no chance of the bike taking off without Dad.....

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Blake - Oset 1

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Blake - Oset 2

BBQ at Tannum with old school mates......

Sunday - 15th August

Probably easier to explain this with a bit of background.... I went to school with Megan and Ben... Ben married Luci who was a year below us (they've been together since high school and have 3 kids.....) Megan is engaged to Colin (they live in Rocky).... Megan has two girls (previous marriage) and Colin got a job in Gladstone and needed somewhere to stay - so he's staying in our guest room until Megan moves to Gladstone with the girls (or Colin gets a job back in Rocky)

Megan has been trying to organise for a couple of months to get down to Gladstone one weekend for a BBQ so that we can all catch up.... so this was finally the weekend for it - and perfect weather too!

Colin, Ben & Megan BBQ'ing Lunch....

You know these two....

Sienna (Megan's youngest) and Blake...

Haylee (Ben & Luci's youngest), Jade & Charlize (Megan's eldest)

Charlize

Peek-a-boo Jade

Blake loved the play area here.... and especially the slingshot slide... this slide drops at a fairly mean angle... but he loved it and didn't seem to come a cropper on it....

Unfortunately it's too quick for me to get action photos.....

Haylee

Angela (Ben & Luci's eldest daughter)

Kristian (Ben & Luci's Son... who is a spitting image of Ben that we knew at school... not that he's changed much since)

Megan

Ben

Luci

Colin

We had a great lunch... great catch up... and then it was time to get the kids home so that Blake could have a big afternoon sleep.... and trying to keep him awake in the car on the way home was definitely a challenge.... he was dozing when we got home and I managed to get a bottle into him before getting him to bed for his afternoon sleep... :)