Fun with friends

Some fabulous friends came over on Saturday to help set up our trampoline (which had been sitting in a box in the garage since approx Oct!). The kids had a fun time playing - the box was a big hit as usual!

Puppet cat and more

I managed to get some fun pictures of JoJo and her precious "Puppet cat" this morning. She's always saying "Puppet cat is such a precious toy isn't she?".

The other pics.. an orchid that JJ chose for me for mothers day, and my first (deliberate!) felting effort - some shoes for Xander. I think they fit pretty well, but I'll wait until he wakes up to try them on him properly (yes that does mean I tried them on him while he was asleep!). I used Nundle Woollen Mills 20ply undyed wool, and my own pattern... fun!

I had a nice mothers day yesterday, even though the kids and I were sick. It was a nice quiet day with some lovely presents (my fave was the loaf of bread Jeremy carefully wrapped for me!) and I started to feel much better as the day went on, and I'm pretty much over my cold now. The kids are both pretty sick still - had a trip to the Dr this morning and now I've got to get antibiotics into Xander somehow. Hopefully they'll be better really soon.

JoJo decided our front glass doors needed cleaning (I can't imagine why!) so here's some pics of the 2 kids doing some "cleaning"!

Ducks!

Had a great trip to the duck pond this morning with Mum. JoJo wanted to invite her, so she made the phonecall.... she's getting pretty good at it! Xander was quite overwhelmed to see all the "quack quacks" and both kids had a great time on the playground and feeding the ducks. JoJo even got to take a pic with Nanna's camera!

The kids had a ball with the new blocks this morning - there's a pic of X putting some together. He seems to have a greater talent for pulling them apart though. As usual the bag that the blocks came in is as big a hit as the blocks themselves... it's puppet cat's cage apparently!

We went to Spotlight before the duck pond *shudder* which was a harrowing ordeal as usual. I think I've got enough bits and pieces to get started on a dress for JJ though, which should be fun!

A pretty average morning this morning, but that won't prevent me inflicting my musings on blogland! Went to Kmart with my 2 snotty kids and got some megablocks, which X had loved at the cafe we went to on the weekend. I think my kids are too spatially challenged for Duplo at the moment, so we'll give the megablocks a go. X played with 2 of them in the trolley and obviously thought he was one clever lad for putting them together (we have low standards in our family!).

I've been reading a fantastic book over the last few days - it's called "So many books, so little time" by Sara Nelson, and I picked it up randomly at the library, so the fact that I've loved it is a real bonus! It's Sara's journey through a year of reading, which could have been mind-numbingly boring, but is actually very interesting and funny, and has given me a huge list of books to try to chase up and read - yippee!!

Some random sites I've been enjoying recently....
http://www.tackyliving.com/article.php?id=132 I've GOT to make some of these! So cute!
http://sugarfishblog.blogspot.com/ Ruth's blog is lovely and it has made me more determined to put effort into my blog :)
http://www.fabric.com/quilting-fabric-shop-by-designer-michael-miller-fabric-michael-miller-ginger-blossom.aspx Here's some of the fabric that I ordered last night for E to bring home from the US for me. It was SO hard to choose!
http://cfhusband.blogspot.com/ What can I say?? Amazing stuff!

See I do love my daughter after all!

Wow I'm going beserk with my blog now - it's not even a whole day since my last post! I think something about the self indulgence of blogging appeals to me:P

Anyway, 1st pic... JoJo in her new beanie made by moi. She doesn't get much of my stuff, so I wanted to make sure she got a beanie. Note X in the background reading as usual!

2nd pic... our trip to the park with Nanna this morning. The weather was beautiful and the park is just amazing. I didn't think Nanna would appreciate me posting the pics I took of her! Not that they were bad, but you know how it is! Mum picked up the Bilibo (YAY!) this morning and JJ played with it in the sand at the park, and you can see her with it at home in the 3rd pic... she loves it and so does puppet cat apparently.

Last pic... the wool I dyed yesterday plus a couple of other balls. I"m meant to be making JJ a vest with the blue, but now the colour seems a bit much and I'm just not that inspired, not to mention that I don't have a pattern. The wool is lovely soft handspun wool I got at the op shop - $5 I think for about 300g plus some other yarn thrown in too. Bargain! Just wish I'd dyed it a different colour!

A fun night in store... I"m supposed to be teaching E how to crochet beanies, and we're meant to be choosing some lovely lovely Michael Miller fabric for her to bring back from the US. How to choose though?!? It's all too nice!

Alright computer time is up! Trying to save my wrist :)

Here's X modelling his new pair of funky pants. They protected his knees from a nasty graze in the swing incident on Sunday (pity I hadn't crocheted him a balaclava as well) and the wool is unscathed, surprisingly (although dirty!). Gotta love that BFL.

I had to put in the pic of X cuddling the sheet - awwww! He loves to cuddle everything!

I really need to take more pics of JoJo - it looks like I never photograph her! She's sick and not very photogenic at the moment though... is that a bad thing to say?!

The bottom pic is some wool I dyed for some longies for a friend's little boy - should be cute!

I'm really worried about my wrist though - it's quite sore and just feels 'fragile'. I'm trying to convince myself it's not the crocheting, but how can it not be, really? I bought a brace for it yesterday and I'm not sure if it's making it better or worse. I really really really hope I don't have to stop the crocheting :( :( :( Something else to pray about hey?

Oh. My. Goodness. My morning this morning was unbelievable. I'll try to type up the condensed version (because I think the computer may actually be the source of my wrist issues... wishful thinking?? Ha ha!).

Ok, we went to a toy shop to attempt to buy a Bilibo for the kids as a treat for being sick, being cute, me being bored, whatever. I wander around the shop for awhile, only to give up and ask for help, and then find that the woman AT THE COUNTER has just bought the last one. ARgghhhhhh!!!! They then ring around and find some more, at I'm SURE they said ***** shop. Ok, we drive to ***** (I get lost on the way of course). We wander around the shop for awhile and then say we want the bilibo that's put aside. The sales girl assumes a blank look and assures me that the other store never rang them... meaning that I was actually meant to drive to a completely different shop approx a million miles away. The sales girl assures me that it's only 10 mins to the other shop and draws me a map. Deep breaths.

Interlude... trip to scary toilets, buy lunch (grrr) at cafe, get in car to find that sandwich was made on Turkish bread which I can't eat (#@$*&^&) so I eat the delicious filling that cost me $6.50.

Attempt to drive to shop.... get somewhat lost, miss exit on inner city bypass, end up in completely wrong suburb, turn around, miss exit again, give up on that shop. Attempt different shop only to be forced to interact with snooty sales staff, who of course have never heard of the toy in question.

Oh, I forgot to mention that X fell asleep on the way to shop 2 and of course refused to sleep when we got home.

One of those days. The kids were surprisingly cheerful which I'm so grateful for, but my oh my it was an ordeal!