Memories

I've been looking through my photos and came across this little gem. It was taken 6 years ago......gosh they've grown.
I can still remember that morning as though it was this morning.
#2 found a blue texta and drew all over #3's face. We couldn't get it all off. In the colour version of this photo you can see blue.
Come to think of it, in all of my photos taken of the three kids together, something has happened.
One shoot, #2 tripped over the leg of a table, fell and ended up with a massive bruise over one eye.
One shoot #1 had run into a wall the day before at school and had cut up his face around his nose.
Other times various children have been missing teeth.
I guess the point of all this is just memories. None of our children are perfect. Sometimes they are dirty, sometimes they are missing teeth, sometime they cut their own hair (yep, #2), sometimes they have black eyes (yep #3), sometimes they have cuts and bruises and sometimes they are just plain cranky. This is all what makes our stories ours and what our memories are made of.

Double celebration

How cool is this.

One of my most special friends, (lets just call her Devine Miss M)

and #1 share the same birthday!!!

Cool, I know!

We all went out for dinner tonight to celebrate.

Here are #2 and 3 with the Devine Miss M, gotta love those cheeky kid smiles.

#3 loved his meal, as did #2.....

but # 1 was M.I.A until the cake arrived and finished off with this nice shot.....

#1 turns 11

I find it hard to believe that this person has been with us for 11 years!!!!!!!

It's strange to think of how tiny he was - 7lb 1oz. Now, well he is just huge.

He was up at the crack of dawn, well actually before the crack of dawn and just lay curled up on the end of our bed without a word, just waiting for me to wake. He has never been so quick or eager to get ready for school (I told him he needed to get dressed before presents). Mmmmmm, maybe I should try that line more often......

It seems like only the other day that everything I said was still so magical and perfect to him.....Now he wants long hair (shocking I know) and to choose his own clothes.....

I know I have to start to let go, but I just want soooo badly to protect him and keep him safe. Maybe next birthday I'll be ready to let go.....

Happy Birthday, Storm Trooper.

Sorry if you are squeemish, but I mentioned in an earlier post about Sams accident. This photo was taken a week after the surgery, it shows the cut/stitches on his wrist where the graft was taken. The bruising is a combination of trauma from the vein graft and blood thinners. Fortunately, you can't see the finger that was damaged, it was a partial degloving and very nasty. We had a wonderful surgeon who did 4 hours of microsurgery to save the finger. We now just have to hope and pray that all of the physiotherapy works and he gets more movement/usage.

So we wnt to visit Sam at work on Saturday. It has been ages since we took in real coffee and cake. I think before Sam's accident ( it has been almost 3 months now).

The kids love climbing in and on the trucks and since they've moved into the new station, it's much easier for the kids to look at the trucks. They love their Dad being a firefighter. He is the luckiest guy, turning his favorite hobby into a full time paid job.

This face is the result of the sundae I bought after we picked #2 up from dance class Monday night. He still has sooo much trouble getting food into his mouth. We still love him all the same (even if it is only a face his mother would love!)

When Sam went to work (night shift) on Sunday night and after the kids went to bed, this is what I did.


From this........



to this......




Poor old Sam had tried to be the perfect husband and meddled with the iron, hence the big burn mark. He promised he would buy me a new cover but I just couldn't look at it. I had some lovely red floral fabric, the photo doesn't do it justice, but it is much nicer to look at than the old cover. How long will this one last, before Sam wrecks this one too!!!!

This little number has been sitting in my U.F.O. pile for quite some time now and all it needed was backing and binding. I finally did it the other night while Sam was on duty, the kids were asleep and I was watching The Bachelor.

we had a car rally today with the boys scout troop. sam and i needed the good stuff to get us going.......

then we saw the competition..... we waited for our turn to get started, we were the last to leave.

part way through the morning we were greeted by this stuff.....

wont complain as we need it too much. our morning progressed nicely, until.......a little voice from #3 said he wasn't feeling well. not too long after that we were delightfully given a deposit in the bucket, this was soon followed by #2 alo adding to the gift, but hers was nowhere near the bucket and all through the 'fire-engine-that-would-be-if-it-could-be'........needless to say, that was the END of our car rally and we were awarded with a D.N.F.

back to work tomorrow

weekend

so after being sick earlier this week all i wanted was the weekend..........until it started - the whinging that is. 3 independent beings all wanting their own way at once and nothing would sway them. fireman sam is on duty, so he's no help. what did i do????? i made amanda's bag and hoped it (the whinging) would go away......it didn't but the bag is finished!!!

So after winning this fabric (Seaside Rose) on Ebay I decided that it would be perfect on #2's bed. She loves it!!!! Every morning for a week she would ask if it was finished - she has no concept of time or effort! I took it to school to show my mums and a few of them asked if they could have it for their daughters, I was tickled pink. It is a beautiful little quilt and I hope #2 will treasure it always (and not drag it around the floor building tents with her brothers).

Happy Birthday

Can you believe that we have two birthday's at our house in August? How did THAT happen?????

#2 turned 9 - what happened to that clingy little babe that would not leave my side nor go NEAR anyone else. For the longest time I thought we were destined to be together forever........My how time changes that. Now she is her own person and cuddles EVERYBODY (but I think I'm still the special someone - for now anyway).