At the beach

New years day at Rabbit Island. What a blast!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

I hope this is the bestest year ever for everyone.

Really hoping Ryan has started the new year how he means to continue. He's just slept for 6 1/2hrs. Yay!

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

SANTA BABY!

Have also added another smiley photo, 'cause i can't resist that dimple.

The family

Octogirl

Maggie is finally over her fever. Lasted a full 24hrs. Just hate it when your child is sick. Thank goodness Charlotte is old enough to be reasonably self reliant, but even so trying to deal with feeding a newborn and deal/comfort/cuddle with a sick 19mnth old has led me to the conclusion that i would like to be an octopus in my next life (not that i believe in next lives!). Eight arms could be soooo useful!

UGH! AAARGH! UGH!

How is it that a sick child (Maggie) can be up all night, but wake in the morning running around happy as larry and giggly, when the adults of the house who have been up with said sick child walk around feeling like trash that has been steam-rolled?!
Poor Maggie has been up a lot of the night with fever. Fortunately my dearest husband took her into bed with him, so i could get some sleep (in her bed), allowing that i had to get up to feed Ryan. He finally had had enough of her restlessness by 4.30am and i took over from there. There is however a payoff to his kindness. He doesn't deal well with lack of sleep and is now a big old grump (thankfully he's gone to work) and will be a big old grump for the next couple of days. Still at least i got a little sleep (enough to be able to function during the day!) And another huge thanks goes to my Mum, who has kindly taken Charlotte to swimming and is also planning on minding my three kids (yes this includes a newborn and a sick child) for a couple of hours tonight so i can go to Daryl's work do (at least for the meal). Lastly i would like to thank my adorable dear sweet son, who has had the most considerate timing thru all this and has waited till i have had Maggie settled each time before waking for feeding and has spent most of his normal wake time this morning sleeping, so i could spend focusable time on cuddling Maggie. She is now tucked back up in bed (very early nap) and Ryan has just woken for a feed.
What an awesome family i have and a refreshed respect for solo parents!

Say 'Cheese!'

Those ever wonderful first smiles! These have been very hard earned. I think Ryan might be a little camera shy, as he would smile plenty when the camera wasn't around, but the minute i had it out he would clam up. These are the results of a whole weeks hard work! Well worth it though! And check out that awesome dimple!

My little show pony

Charlotte had her dance recital yesterday. She was so terribly cute. I reckon her and her bestie were the best in her group. They danced in rainbow skirt to 'somewhere over the rainbow'. Mumma was terribly proud. Charlotte's bestie's mum even cried!
At the end of the show all the kids got back up to do the bird dance. Yep, very cute! You could pick the show ponies though who all kept fighting their way to the front of the stage and yep Charlotte was one of them!