Day 31 Daily December Happy New "Years eve!

Where has this year gone? Our firstborn has turned 5 our baby has turned 3. We are well and truly into our 30s - how does this happen?!

As usual NYE for us was quiet. G'ma and Papa came over so the boys were stoked. Daddy and Papa played golf, mama and G;ma started creating the calendar for this year. (yeah it is late typical us!) We read stories and flew the rockets, we played T-ball and Daz shot the rockets so that G'ma kept us entertained for AGES trying to catch them! It was a really great day topped of by yummy dinner with mum and dad, followed by spending some time with Matt and Jo and the girls. It has been so lovely catching up with them while they are home for the holidays. all too soon they have to fly off again.

Again  I need to upload the pics (and video G'ma lol!) from the little camera. But here are a couple from the big one...

We found these rockets at the Australian Geographic shop in Canberra the other day. Same type as the little ones that the boys got fro Christmas but bigger. They are so much fin! Daz has put them on the roof a couple of time but they are really light weight so they come off pretty quick!

 

the rocket after daddy launched it.

G'ma reading a story to the boys who are watching TV at the same time. These kiddos of our are definitely multitalented!

enjoy J

Day 29 Daily December

Another quiet day at home today. It was hot again but the boys still have coughs so we are reluctant to bust out their slip and slide. Soon we hope. So Today was vege freezing day - oops sorry that is magic sauce making day! Caden really really dislikes veges, to the point he gags more often than not on them. so we puree up a heap and freeze them. They go into any possible sauce or meal that we have.  The latex muffin trays are a godsend as I use those to freeze them in and they just pop out - better than baking trays or plastic bags also it lets you have a good couple of tablespoon of veges in each one.

I wanted to try out the light in the boys toy room now that there is a little bit more room. Ty wasn't that interested but gee he is cute! Bunny got in on the action too!

  

enjoy J

day 28 Daily December

We finally gave in to the boys requests to sleep in the same room. We put Tyler's bed in Caden's room a few weeks ago cause I wanted to test his room out for studio space - only for a few hours. Today we made the move of Cadens bed into Tylers room so that it is now their room. Tim will tell how that goes. They were pretty excited - aka jumping off the walls and beds excited after the move was started. I decided that Cadens old room was now being the toy room and the study goes back to being an office. I think while I love having my computer out here in the dining room it may need to go back into the office again just for clutters sake really. We are over the clutter.

Daz moved the boys Plane shelf so that they can share it above their beds and I just need to make a collage frame of images of Tyler now for the  wall. We have one of Caden but Tyler needs one too. I have their name frames ready to print and a couple of matching frames ready to go so they will go up on the wall too.

here is some pics of the toy room - I never thought that I would ever get it organised. every time I turn around there were more toys just mutiplying!

One good thing is that I finally found the majority of pieces of a bob the builder puzzle that has been in pieces for nearly a year. just have 4 more to find!

 

We built the toy box this time last year and the poor thing is still nude. We really need to get some colour on it.

Enjoy J

Day 27 Daily December - Dancing in the rain

It has been raining on an off all day and humid and hot to make it worse. We had a minor emergency visit from G'ma and Papa today as they are travelling back to Wollongong to take Nanna back but we left Blankie at their place. Caden was ok for a night with out it but come the second night not good. So G'ma and Papa brought her back to Caden who was sooo pleased to see her.

I cleaned out Caden's room today getting rid of brown and unused toys and basically the crap that you accumulate. The toy box was emptied and all the pens and pencils are going into the pencil box now.

Later after all that is finished Daz started cleaning the back yard and the BBQ and the kiddos were 'dancing in the rain' aka the hose! They were so funny laughing the whole time.

 

and of course they finish it off with an argument!

enjoy J

Day 26 Daily December - Checking out the new stuff

Since we were at G'ma and Papa's for Christmas day we didn't really get a chance to explore the new toys that the boys were given. So we spent the day building and playing and checking out the new stuff and shooting rockets into the sky. I have to admit it didn't take long for the kids to figure out you can play guns by pointing it at different angles! In the afternoon we spent some time with Matt and Jo and the girls. The boys loved their costumes from America and Charlotte seemed to like the Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton that we gave her. Abs was happy with her Dora books that played music too. All four of them played and coloured and chased each other around then settled in to watch Snow White while we caught up on news and stuff.

here are the boys into their stuff in the morning

 

DAy25 Daily December - Santa just flew past my window!

   They were the first words out of Caden's mouth this morning. They made it to 6am which I thought was great! here are a few pics from the afternoon at G'ma and Papa's place. Tyler took a lot of them with their new camera. I will blog more later.

day 15 Daily December

It is Rudolph Day today! I found our copy of the Rudolph cartoon movie today so the boys are enthralled along with Daddy in watching it!

 

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enjoy J

day14 Daily December

Parent teacher interview night, Tyler decided to paint his nails with his textas and then ours too. Picked up the Caden's portfolio tonight as well. Both boys are doing well at school, there are no worries about Caden going off to big school next year. All his readiness markers have been ticked off and all is good. Tyler is a very well rounded child that plays with everyone and doesn't appear to be the meany he is at home to Caden- have to put that one down to sibling rivalry I think!

Caden's portfolio and frame.

enjoy J

day 13 Daily December

The annual Santa Family photo was taken today. We had planned on looking  a little (ok a lot) less scruffy but Caden decided then and there that he needed to talk to Santa otherwise how else would he get a bakugan for Christmas? So my determined little man was cool with going up and chatting and even sitting on his knee. Tyler on the other hand was balking at it. He hid behind my leg and was not coming out for anything! So Daddy finally got through the checkouts at woollies and joined us and we bought the digital package which consisted of 3 5x7 prints and a cd of all the images they took for a pretty good price. and here is our photo - taken by the photographers at the marketplace.

 

enjoy J

Finally got it!

  I have been trying for 4 years to get one of these types of Christmas tree pics! This year I finally have enough knowledge to succeed!

my bokehed Christmas Tree!....

pretty cool huh! Daz even turned off the TV for me! Oh he loves me heaps! lol!

enjoy J

dressing Santa

There was very little fear this year at having a chat with Santa. Caden was keen to have a chat with the jolly fellow in Red. As a result we had our annual Santa family photo taken but have to wait another couple of days to get it back. Because they were so good Santa gave them both a activity book with stickers and you had to dress Santa!

Caden had a blast with it!

 

Tyler sharing MY lich with Caden!

enjoy J