Some photos from our weekend

Tahlia and Isabella 26/4/2009

It is rare to get these two in a photo together.

Even rarer to have them both with a smile!

Tahlia makes a mess in Bella's room.

Note the lump under the white and yellow blanket?

That's Tahlia's baby - asleep :-)

Tahlia enjoying a sausage on a stick and some red drink!!! Mmmmmmm!
Now that's some good parenting!

Isabella solemnly marching with her school at the local ANZAC Day parade.

Lest We Forget.

Toilet training

You know I really can't remember much about toilet training with Bella. I do recall that I mostly gave thanks to Kindy for training her. I have absolutely no recall on how the "number 2" training progressed.

We are in the midst of toilet training Tahlia (as if you can't tell!).

She has been in knickers to Kindy every day this week (except Thursday when she was with me). The first two days weren't so hot but Wednesday and Friday she didn't have one accident!

Thursday (with me) she also did great. We were out and about with various things and I had her in pull-ups. No accidents (except for #2's).

Don't read if you are easily grossed out.....it's the #2 in the knickers that are doing me in. Seriously that is DISGUSTING! I have absolutely no memory of ever having to deal with them with Bella, but of course I would have.

Oh the joys of parenthood!
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Michael has taken Isabella to march in the ANZAC day parade with her school this morning. There seems to be some miscommunication as to which uniform she was to wear. Her teacher apparently told her to wear her sports uniform, but the news letter expressly states no sports uniform! So to cover all bases I have sent Michael a bag with her sports shirt and white shoes.

So if you are reading please take a moment to remember those Australians who have served (are serving) our country. Lest we forget.

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Wii Fit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Need I add any more exclamation points to express how much fun I'm having with this?

Last night after both girls had gone to bed and Michael had fallen asleep on the couch I 'played' it.

Today my body is aching! I really must remember to do some warm ups.

My favourites are: hula hoop, step, boxing can really get some frustrations out with this!) and this balancing bubble one.

I have learned that I am pretty good at yoga, not too bad with aerobics, ok with muscle workouts but TERRIBLE with the balancing games - TERRIBLE.

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Not much more to report for now.

School holidays are nearly over!

Tomorrow is a pupil free day for Isabella.

Now tell me why is it they need so many pupil free days? In my day.......

Seriously I don't recall having one every single term! As a student it probably rocks - but as a parent it's just another day of juggling how on earth to combine work and a child who no longer attends daycare.

Michael's mum and dad were happy to help. We dropped Bella out there tonight and I will finish work early tomorrow to collect her.

Then back to school on Tuesday.

Unfortunately the weather was pretty awful for her week off with Michael. They did go and see Monsters vs Aliens at the movies and played many many games of Uno though!

Thursday (my day off) was the first sunny day in a week. So Tahlia played hookey from daycare and we all went to the Lagoon for a swim. Although the sun was shining and it was pretty hot, the water was a little chilly but the girls didn't seem to mind.

Yesterday was another hot(ish) day so we pulled out the shell pool and filled her up. The girls took their swimming babies in and had a ball. These are the photos I'm hopefully attaching to this post. We are seriously considering getting a pool at the moment so hopefully when summer comes again we'll be ditching the shell pool for something a little bigger. Stay tuned!

Tahlia spent the day in knickers (or knickies as she calls them) yesterday and not one accident! I've labelled her a few pairs to take to daycare tomorrow - so fingers crossed she'll be easy to train.

I've got to say it's pretty quiet with only 1 child in the house. Tahlia is behind me on the girls desk which is set up with the broken computer flat screen and old keyboard and mouse. She is tapping away earnestly. Of course the TV is going in the other room - Dorothy and the Wiggles and Tahlia is wearing her Dorothy tutu.

Well its just past 8pm - time to get this bedtime show on the road.

Until next time!

PS this formatting crap on this blog is FRUSTRATING! If anyone can point me in the direction of a html for dummies website that'd be great...

Easter 2009

Well that about sums up Tahlia's Easter.

Within half an hour of waking Easter Sunday morning she had devoured more chocolate than in her entire life!

Her vocab has a new favourite word......................'chocolate'

Isabella and Tahlia 'hunted' for Easter eggs. Isabella was a little disappointed that there weren't many eggs to be found and none at all outside.

I explained to her that it was too wet for the bunny to leave any outside and furthermore, I had asked him (her?) not to leave too many because I knew that there would be plenty of chocolate.

And boy was I right!

Pity I've given up chocolate - I could be having a FEAST right now.

Michael suggested we just let them eat and eat and eat to a) get rid of the chocolate and b) let them get a belly ache so they may want to give up chocolate for good! Hehehe!

Kia: the photo shows the girls getting stuck into the Easter chicks you gave them. Thank you!

In other news:

• I've set up our new laptop and we are all systems go! Just have to check/learn how to burn. How wonderful to have a working burner again!
• I've got a new mobile ringtone "Blame it on the Boogie" - blue toothed from our laptop. Cool!
• It has been raining pretty much non-stop the entire long weekend :-(
• My baptism/confirmation/communion was great!
• About to go make lamb roast for dinner - yummy!

Hope you all have a wonderful Easter.

Love Suz

PS GGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I can't get the spacing to work!

Poor Bella Bear

Poor Isabella has been through enough in the last couple of weeks.

This week it is school sores :-(

I thought they were infected mosquito bites until the mother of her little school friend (who incidently is a doctor) told me she thought they were school sores.

Straight to the doctor (a Sunday of course - these things always seem to happen over the weekend) who prescribed antibiotics to be taken orally and an antibiotic cream for the sores.

They were, and still are, quite itchy.

It's Wednesday night and the sores still look quite bad - I hope to see some improvement soon.

On a brighter note we had our very first parent/teacher interview the other night with Mrs Rippingale. Apparently she is fitting in quite well. She interacts well in class but isn't a trouble maker. She has good gross and fine motor skills and enjoys the computer lessons and discussing the weather chart. Next term they will begin some homework activities.

Isabella has her last day of school tomorrow. A fun day with church in the morning and then a sausage sizzle for lunch and then to the park for the afternoon.

Michael is taking a week off with her for school holidays.

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Tahlia continues to test our patience at every turn.

Her daycare teacher told me she had a run in with her today too!

Apparently Tahlia was playing with a doll. She lost interest and another child began to play with it. Of course Tahlia decided she wanted it back and her teacher told her she would need to wait for her turn.

Well....................her teacher told me Tahlia was VERY cranky with her for suggesting such a thing. There were tears and dirty looks involved.

Glad we're not the only ones witnessing this behaviour - I was beginning to think she saved it all up for home.

The other thing that drives me crazy about her (and alternately I find extremely adorable) is her repetitiveness.

"Carrots" each morning and evening to and from daycare in the hopes of stopping to feed the horses.

"Its a bit late" each evening closer to bedtime

"socks" each morning when Bella puts her socks on

"i do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/i help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screeched when she wants to do something

"in there in there" as we pass the shopping centre/service station every day

"swimming..........aaaaaaaamber not abby!" whenever we discuss swimming because she goes to swimming with Amber not Abby

"tutu" which I sometimes confuse with "tissues" and start giving her a tissue when in fact she wants a tutu so she can dance to Hi 5 or The Wiggles.

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And finally for those who may not know, I am getting baptised/christened and taking communion and first eucharist on Easter Saturday - in the same church in which Isabella and Tahlia were christened.

I've chosen Saint Gemma Galgani as my "saint". Google her - she was pretty special!

So say a little prayer for me if you are that way inclined!

Well I better go Isabella is getting frustrated by something (for a change!)

Bye for now.

Patience

I keep losing mine.

If you find it send it back ASAP.

Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And now in an attempt to chill out and relax some diary extracts:

April 2nd, 2003 (25 weeks, 4 days pregnant with Isabella)

"Oh my goodness you are moving around heaps today. A website predicted you are a girl this morning based on nothing much more than mine and Daddy's date of birth."

April 2nd, 2004 (Isabella is nearly 9 months old)

"Sleep thru! MILESTONE: you've cut thru your 4th tooth up top on your right hand side. You know what I love? When I put you to bed at night. I rock you and you snuggle into my chest sucking your left thumb and your right hand is stroking my left arm - it is just too adorable. I love you my sweet girl!"

April 2nd, 2007 (Tahlia is 11 weeks old)

"Home day except for trip to servo to fill up. You were a bit unsettled/overtired at lunch, although you had a big sleep first up 7am to 9.30am. I worked in between naps. Made Golden Syrup Dumplings - yum yum. Bella had a late nap. I love you my darling."

March 31st, 2008 (Tahlia is 14.5 months old)

"Leaving kindy today was trying to get you to wave to Tracy so she could take a photo. You pulled your dummy out and said "buh-bye". Too cute!"