Whos the Baby now?

NOT ME!! (well almost)
Mummy has been strange the last few days. When I get up in the morning, she takes my pull-up off but instead of putting another one on me, she gives me my very own undies. They feel better than the pull up but its still a bit strange. Then as Im being dressed, mummy will say to me, 'Dont forget to tell me when you want to go to the toilet' and send me on my way. Iknow what a toilet is as mummy has tried this with me before but this time she says Im a big boy now and I need to be able to do this. And guess what? I do. I had an accident at the supermarket yesterday and Im having trouble telling mummy when I want to do a number 2, but otherwise, Im using the toilet all day YAY. And today, I had a big long sleep coz mummy and I got a trailer load of firewood and had to unload it all by ourselves so I got very tired. Mummy must have been tired too coz she forgot to put a pull up on me and I didnt wet the bed!! Mum was very happy and very proud and kept kissing me which was annoying. But mum is a little sad too as she says her baby is growing up, but Im loving learning all these new things.Dad says that once I have mastered this new skill, I get to move onto the next one.
I cant wait!

Found this on Bebo, thort it was interesting

Friends & Maoris

FRIENDS:Never ask for food
MAORIS:Are the reason you have no food.

FRIENDS:Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.
MAORIS:Call your parents mom and dad.

FRIENDS:Bail you out of jail and tell you what you did was wrong.
MAORIS:Would be sitting next to you saying, Damn...we messed up...but that was fun!"

FRIENDS:Have never seen you cry.
MAORIS:Cry with you.

FRIENDS:Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
MAORIS:Keep your stuff so long then forget it's yours.

FRIENDS know a few things about you
MAORIS:Could write a book with direct quotes from you

FRIENDS:Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing
MAORIS:Will kick the whole crowds ass that left you.

FRIENDS:Would knock on your door.
MAORIS:Walk right in and say, "I'm home!"

FRIENDS:Are for a while
MAORIS:Are for life

FRIENDS Will talk crap to the person who talks crap about you.
MAORIS Will knock the *FREAK* out!!

FRIENDS:Will ignore this.
MAORIS:Will Copy & paste it & pass it on

A 5 hour project

This is Miss Kyla having her hair streaked/lightened/dyed or whatever you want to call it. It took a veeery long time and it was lucky that Sharlene was able to help me out in the beginning before she got whisked off home. It came out a bit more blonder than you can see in the pic. Like I say to Andrew, it will probably be the 1st of many experiments that she will want to try.

A couple of Acknowledgements.......

I would like to send our love and thoughts to my cousin Sarita and her boyfriend and congratulate them on the birth of their daughter, Erana Te Aroha. She was born 17/06 at waitakere hospital after a very long labour for mum. All is well and hope to go home today. Way to go cuz xxx
Also i want to say hi to Liane and say how great she is going on her SureSlim program. I saw her yesterday and noticed that all her hard work is starting to pay off and the results are very encouraging for her. You will reach your goal in no time if you keep up the good work. You go girl!!

Life as we are living it : )

Hi everyone!!
Yes I no its been a long time since Ive updated our blog but better late than never I say.
Things have been going well for us here in Perth. I celebrated my birthday last weekend which was pretty good. Andrew threw a surprise bbq for me and I got some cool pressies and spent a few hours with just about everyone that was important to us. I have such a wonderful hubby xxx
The kids are all healthy and happy. Kaytlynn has started playing hockey and is really enjoying it. Unfortunately I got a bit annoyed as the school did a public weigh-in (dont ask me why) and when they took Kaytlynns weight, she was a healthy 61kgs and the other kids laughed at her. God kids can be such little #*#*#*#* when they want to be. Katy was quite upset but AJ, her uncles and aunties and I managed to boost her confidence again and she happily played her tournament the next day. They won 2 games out of 5 yay. She had her 1st sleepover here in Perth last night and had a wonderful night helping her friend Alysha celebrate her 11th birthday.
Kyla is busy freaking her dad out as she breezes through teenage-hood. Did I say breeze? Maybe for her. Kyla, my niece Sharlene and I did a couple of girlie hours yesterday at the mall as we chose some hair dye for Kylas hair. She had been on my back for ages to let her do it so I finally gave in. Kyla finally settled on a blonde hair lightening kit. What a mission!! It had a cap included; you know one of those hair caps with the holes in it. I thought that it would make the job easier but boy talk about time consuming pulling strands of hair thru little bitty holes with a little bitty hook thingy. It didnt help that this was the 1st time that I had ever dyed hair this way so lucky instructions were included :P The end result is pretty good so once I can pin her down long enough ill take a photo and share her new look. Has made her look older though, something that is freaking her dad out. School is going well for her as always. Our young brainchild.
Not much is happening with Liam at the moment. He is enjoying school but shying away from any sports activities. Not really showing any interest in anything right now. Hes into more of the technology era which is good but not. We encourage his friends coming to play and vice versa and get him out of the house and away from the PS2 and 3 and the computer as much as we can. Hes become a bit temperamental though (males dont do the PMS thing do they?) and continues to be a real daddys boy.
Maddisyn is going okay at school. She is attending more regularly as for a while there it was a real mission to get her there.She would cry and yell and become real emotional about it that it sort of made me think that something was happening at school. But when I approached the teacher about it, she assured me that all was well. So I started to make her go all the time and now she seems to be all good about it. I think maybe I was being taken for a ride..... Anyway, art is Maddys thing. Shes forever creating little pressies or drawings for Andrew and I and they are so beautiful that we will treasure them always. She seems to have the creative gift that Andrew and his family have.
Last is little Ethan. Hes growing big and strong and possesses the same outgoing attitude to life that his dad and Uncle Gerard have. Its funny isnt it. You and your partner make these little people but they can also posses the good (and sometimes the bad)bits from other family members as well as yourself. Ethan wants something in his life, he works hard to get it, whether it be by crying, tantrums, smiles or kisses, he gets there in the end. His hair is getting pretty long, to the point where everyone who doesnt know him, thinks hes a girl at 1st glance, even though hes dressed like a boy. We are reluctant to cut it as the blonde streaks in his hair compliments his looks so well that we want to hang onto it a little longer. Vain or what but I guess that as long as he continues to look like the same, we can hang onto our baby a little longer too. Or maybe not. His toilet training is at a standstill. I have been so lazy with it but Andrew is getting a little fed up with nappies. Our kids are usually toilet trained way before this age 'sigh' Soon, I promise.
As for Andrew and I, well we continue to enjoy the lifestyle that Perth enables us to have. Theres no place like home, but this will do us for now.
Hope that all is well with everyone. Sending you all our love and thoughts.

A bit of a catch up.

Well its been a pretty good last couple of weeks.
My sister Joanne and her son Stacie came to visit us all the way from New Zealand. They stayed with Karleen and Davy but we saw them regularly which was good.
Stacie was such a smiley and smoochy baby and such a pleasure to have around that it was hard for us to let his mum take him back home to NZ. Joanne seemed to have a pretty good visit too but with the rest of her family back home they eventually had to leave I guess.
As much as you love your children there is always things that will happen that will scare the shit out of you and that is known as one of the downfalls of having kids.
For example;
Sunday night I went to drop Joanne off at the airport, leaving the children in the more than capable hands of my husband and brother. From what I gather, at some point during the afternoon, while Andrew and Davy were watching their rugby, they realised that all the kids were in the lounge apart from Ethan. Andrew had been talking to him not long before. Anyway Andrew got up to go and search him out, but Ethan was nowhere to be found. They checked everywhere, even going as far as checking the neighborhood, but still no Ethan. After a while everyone was becoming frantic and the adults were on the verge of having heart attacks and calling the police when Andrew found him, curled up in the foetel position, right up against the couch in the darkest corner of the lounge on the floor, fast asleep, unaware of the panic he had caused for the past half hour.
Talk about a parents worst nightmare.