Genna's 6th Birthday party with her school friends

Practicing writing at school

:)

She colored this to hang on the door - so people would know it was her party :)

 

pretty decorations by Dadda's picture

Little mermaid was the theme obviously lol

We love balloons! VERY festive!

First we celebrated Helen's birthday :)

with a yummy cookie cake!

first guest has arrived - time to start decorating cupcakes!!

I'll have a few marshmallows please!

Getting organised for pass the parcel

while brother entertains himself :)

YAY !

Genna's best friend Olivia :)

Genna & her friends :) Such sweet little things - I think they all had a GREAT time!

Showing off their hand tattoos - little mermaid themed of course. They sat there and colored for ages!!

Then it was CAKE TIME!

She chose an ice cream cake :)

Besties

She got such lovely gifts

and lots of shopkins - she's a new fan!!! :) (it's 'the thing' for girls her age I guess!)

I love these earmuffs!!
LOL! A fabulous afternoon. Genna loved it, so did her friends. A huge Thank You to Helen for all her help and Murray for keeping Max entertained during the party :)

next day we prepped cupcakes to bring to school!

 

Fun early birthday celebrations :)

23 Months

WOW he looks SO grown up here - where has the time gone???

This month he officially now says 'Yea' instead of just nodding his head for yes. He understands SO much and is such a lovely cuddly guy.

He yells no and pushes my hands away when I try to help (or just make sure he doesn't fall!) up or down the stairs. So I walk behind him with in arm's reach, but not actually touching him, instead!

He's such a sweet little guy though, this morning he got up quite early so laid in bed next to me for another half an hour and was just saying over and over 'Dadda, Happy' :) :)

Happy brother, cranky sister :)

They LOVE watching 4 wheel drive dvds with Dadda

Another harsh Australian Winter :) It gets a bit chilly outside - but usually warms up to the 60s if the sun is out!

The other day on the way home from school Genna said to me 'I wish we were born at the same time so you could be my twin and come to school with me. But you've already done school, so they probably wouldn't let you go.' I said nevermind how old I am for kindergarten' :) Sweet though, she was just saying that she likes spending time with me, and I do too. I love time with our big girl :)

Trying out the backpack leash - he didn't mind it as it allowed him to walk to the park, but without us worrying about him darting into traffic (he thinks running away from us is hilarious!!)

The week before last we had a few tough naps days - where he just refused to go to sleep in his crib. Ended up on the sofa like this :)

Sweet boy - I don't mind now & then - was nice to just cuddle him and be still (no naptime chores!)

Fun at the mall

another refuse to nap day - ended up taking a drive and he had a nice comfy nap in his carseat

The LOVE this new ride at the mall - another $2 waste of money for a 2 minute 'ride'! But fun to play in :)

Genna's first sick day this year - we took it easy because she had been up coughing alot in the night and was exhausted - fun to just sit and color together.

So so so so proud - she earned this Merit ribbon by getting 7 merit tokens for English (reading)

VERY proud :) !!!

An older pic I forgot to post from their school blog - cute little number 5!

Pop art they made - she's bottom row, second from the left

Designing a playground, with her partner Jake :)