Visiting

This is not how we spent most of Mumma, Grandpa, Nana Kerrie and Grazzlepop's visit.

Although we did hit up Box Office, At the Heads, Jack Rabbit (pictured) and Urban Bean while they were here there was also washing, playing, mowing, cooking and fixing involved.

Thank you for coming to visit south of the border, we loved having you here and hope you ALL come again SOON!

Snapshots

I can post photos again, yay! Here's a little peek into our last little while.


Snuggling with Dadaw.


Seeing if he really looks more intelligent with glasses.


Pepper, not such a great taste after all, although the sushi went down VERY well.


Bubbacinos at Box Office.


Bringing Mummy her shoes to go cycling. We bought an awesome new seat that the boy LOVES.


Taking said shoes to the garage and banging on the door crying to make sure mummy really gets the message that a cycle is in order.





Finding more awesome art work at Labuan Square.


Building, fixing...destroying.


Learning to love soft toys BIG time.


Camping at Breamlea in gale force winds and absolutely loving it.


Swimming and then snuggling to warm up.


Walking to the river for a paddle.

I realise that this is rather Langlan heavy but seeing he's the most photogenic one in the family he gets to star in most of our shots. I also figure that you guys don't mind!

We've been learning to live with 4 in the house, enjoying visitors, squeezing the most out of summer, eating outdoors as much as possible, exploring the known and the unknown. Life, beautiful, messy life.

today this moment I needed to be reminded of this

Splish Splash He was Takin' a Bath

Langlan is a super kid. He decided to have his bath fully clothed a few nights ago. He figured that it saved me doing his laundry. Thanks little man.

Just letting everyone know that I cannot blog at the moment. I can post headings so here's a long one for you all. Enjoy!

Whoopdidoooo, happy 41st anniversary M&D!

It's Alive!

Today is the last day of school holidays in this house. Yesterday we trained into Melbourne for a meander around and a celebration dinner at the Queen Vic Night Market for the end of holidays/beginning of school.


We took the circle tram to Federation Square and stumbled across Theo Jansen's Strandbeests. I'd seen a video of these amazingly lifelike creatures before so I was totally psyched to see them (almost) in the flesh.


The big one was freed every 2 hours for a short stroll across the square whilst the small one could be pushed and pulled around at anytime. Seriously fantastic.





Whilst we were waiting for the big beast to be unleashed we found ourselves on the big screen, climbed trees and caught sparrows. We LOVE Melbourne.

Green Monster Smoothie

I had this for breakfast this morning.
Being that I needed a BIG iron boost I thought 4 cups of spinach would do the trick.
It was surprisingly good...although I couldn't convince the kids. They don't think vegetables belong in smoothies. They are strictly all fruit smoothie kidlets!

Hair Do's

We are working our way through this Blog

Today we tried this hair do. Connor wouldn't let me do his, but I loved doing Kenzi's.

First Day

Cropping

Sometimes blog posts only tell half the story. They are filled with creativity, sunshine, good food, wonderful family, great friends. They show the sunny side of the street, not the dark, murky, smelly and decidedly messy corners of life.

Well, here's one to change all that, no cropping to edit out the mess surrounding me right now.








These photos were taken 10 minutes ago and capture the frustration of my afternoon. Frustrations like Langlan being such a great banana that I couldn't buckle him into the bike trailer so had to break my back bending over and pushing his little bike to the park. A park that neither kid wanted to play at when we got there. Or the second park which had been repeatedly requested but paled into comparison with the first park which we then didn't have time to play at because we'd spent all the playing time getting to the second park.

And getting home? Just as frustrating. Tantrums all round (including me). Snarls in all directions. Refusals to do a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. Food and drink all over the floor. Grunts. Pyramids (Langlan's new take on throwing a wobbly). And now a little bit of peace.

The house has gone back to one child. A child who stole my ice block and absconded to the lounge to munch it. I've put a load of washing on, cleaned up the spilt milk without crying and put my feet up. The rest of the mess will still be there after I've taken a few moments to regain my sanity.

Thank you DHS, juice ice blocks and blogger for giving me this moment. It is very much appreciated.