Sunday...

Sunday was a quiet day.
On Saturday night, for whatever reason, I was so sick and woke up feeling spent so we stayed home all of Sunday and rested. I woke up with the kids so Mike could have a little sleep in and then when he woke up I went to bed and had a nice sleep myself. Mike held down the fort while I rested in bed...

Charley loves being close by, she loves checking out what we are doing and here she was reading with me.

 This was late afternoon after bath and dinner time - Ollie had his wormy and blanket and Charley was harassing him for them so we gave her her own ones, she was SO chuffed with herself. I wonder if she will be as attached to her wormy as Ollie is?

I am so grateful for my husband who was happy to spend the day at home on Sunday with the kids while I rested... I am even more grateful for the fact that he raves about how cute they are and feels like days like this are such a privilege and not a burden at all. He chooses us every second of every day with genuine love and care!

That time...

You know that time in the afternoon when the kids have been playing all day and they start getting irritable? Ollie came to me in tears on Saturday afternoon after a few hours of a play date and stated "Mom, everyone is being SO loud" - My boy, I completely understand you!
So we rounded up the kids, threw them in front of the TV and put on some Peppa Pig - sweet sweet quiet.

There was a bit of hierarchy here -  the three big kids were allowed on the bed but they decided the little ones were not hence them dragging in chairs to watch with them... I could only laugh!

Thank you TV for being able to quieten down a rowdy playdate.

Building...

This was the caption on Ollies school facebook page - 

"It's not often that a principal can walk into a classroom unnoticed...or that children can be so engrossed in their group work that they are literally ON TOP of desks! This was the 'build' part of the Design Technology brief today. First person to guess correctly what they were making and for whom ..wins a glass recycling bag"

The answer was in fact a barbie house that could withstand a very strong wind and no, I didn't win anything :)

I just love this school!

15 months...

On Saturday we had to go for Charley's 15 months inoculations and she did SO well, only a few tears surprisingly. C Bear is on track with everything, her weight and growth have been on point.

Her brother on the other hand does NOT like it when his sister cries and refuses to be in the room when Charley has her injections. Luckily there is a nice big room outside with toys so we have all our bases covered.

I cannot believe now big both of my kiddies are!

My two bests...

These two are my best boys.... like for ever and ever!!!!
I adore this photo of them!

Ushaka...

At the beginning of the year we decided to invest in some Ushaka platinum passes so we can go to Ushaka anytime we like, we have been waiting patiently for beautiful sunny days when we have nothing else planned and Sunday was one of those days.
The weather was lovely, a little windy BUT lovely and we spent the morning at Ushaka ending the morning with a dolphin show.
Ollie now (before it was pure fear) gets so excited when he sees a penguin, seal or whatever else is dressed up walking past - he runs up excitedly and give them a high five while shouting to his dad to please take a picture. Charley on the other hand starts shaking with fear... too funny!!

We look forward to spending many more sunny days at Ushaka and hopefully one day Mike and I will be able to leave the kids and go ourselves so we can try all the rides - we do tag team from time to time but its no fun going down the slides on your own!

Eating lego...

On the weekend was Charley's first time she was allowed to play with the big boy Lego... lets just say that she thought it was for eating and not playing and we spent the short time playing lego making sure she didnt swallow any!

I think for the moment this will be something for Mike and Ollie to play with... until such time our youngest member decides to play with the lego and not eat it.
I will say though that she was SO CHUFFED that she was allowed to finally play with the lego - she has been itching to get her grubby little paws on them for a while.