3 billy kids

Noah and I had a day out at Doodli farm last Thursday. The kids were just beautiful together.

Noah adores his big cousin Jappy.

Smoko @ the shearing shed.

Uncle Eric with 2 of his grandchildren and his great nephew Noah.

Climbing is definitely a prerequisite for playing in the shearing shed.

Nanna Laurel feeding them kumquats. She found great joy in watching them screw up their faces and spit them out after discovering just how bitter they tasted.

"These are yuck" Jappy exclaimed, yet he continued to eat them.

A great joke wasn't it Addi.

"They make sick" said Noah.

My little painters.

Vintage Hungry Hungry Hippos

Noah and I went for a look over in the old house and we discovered Richard's old board game Hungry Hungry Hippos. It is pretty old (over 30 years) and it is in mint condition. I love how it looks so retro. Noah was pretty thrilled with his find. He always begs us to go over to the old house and he will be even more persistent now as he thinks the old house is loaded with toys and trinkets.

I was actually going to buy this game for Noah for his upcoming birthday. What a find!!

Say what?

Almost everyday Noah manages to crack me up with something he says. His increasing vocabulary, general knowledge and cheekiness become more apparent everyday.

I told Noah the other morning that he had to come brush his teeth. He said "why or my teeth might fall over?" I know he meant to say "fall out" but I got the gist of what he was on about.

He asked me "Mum what's for dinner?" I said "I don't know yet." Noah said "well I was thinkin ahhhhhh PIZZA!!". He talks so much like an adult sometimes. Needless to say Noah was served up pizza that night.

Haylee took Noah to Scitech last week with Sienna. When I queried Noah about his day he said that he had a good time at "Psycho."

He often calls his Dad Richard.

He started to stutter/stammer on a few of his words. Richard told him that the police would come if he didn't stop it! My husband's methods may not be 'speech therapist approved' but they sure do work. Noah hasn't stuttered for weeks now!!! Apparently the correct thing to say is "No bumpy words Noah" so if you here him stutter maybe YOU can pick him up on this.

He says sorry all day long without meaning it. He knows that if he says it he will be in less trouble. He often says the following all in one breath: "sorry, police get me then I go to jail." I think we need to ease up on the whole police thing. If he ever is in danger or trouble there is no way in hell he will go to a policeman for help!

Those photos

Here they are. Yes we are very happy with them but we still cannot justify the price of them. We were definitely caught out. We won the sitting and some credit towards some photos but we have come away badly 'out of pocket'. The photographer was so nice but I don't know how on earth he can justify what he charges. I am sure that in years to come we will value them even more. We have a really fabulous print of our 'little cowboy' with Bonnie on our wall so I guess you will just have to come on over for a cuppa if you wanna see that ridiculously over priced item!

The 'big boy' is off to work

Lunch packed. All ready for his big morning with Dad and Pop up at the sheds.

Beyond excited that he got to walk/sprint up to the sheds on his own "cause I'm a big boy!"

Noah walked himself straight back to the house the moment he had eaten everything in his lunch box. Hhhmm perhaps he is not quite ready for work yet!

Aren't they gorgeous

Our friends came over for dinner on the weekend. Noah was beyond happy to have three lovely kids to play with.

Thanks for being there for us xxx

Just wanted to say a huge big thank you to my Mum, Richard's Mum Margaret and my big (but very tiny) cousin Haylee for all there extra help, love and support last week. Thank you also to our wonderful friends and family who messaged, called etc. If I haven't gotten back to you please know that I am very grateful for your support. It really is more about what you do have and not what you haven't. xoxo

Happy Birthday Ruby

4 Today

Wasn't expecting that

Last week Richard and I announced to our friends and family that I was 12 weeks pregnant. I went to Perth on the Wednesday and then to my scan on Thursday. I had only Noah with me as I told Richard I didn't mind going on my own. You can probably imagine the shock and total devastation I felt when I was told that I had in fact miss-miscarried at 8 weeks. I felt so pregnant. I was still vomiting, had a bump, bad skin and full bladder which just sucked. The most awful thing is knowing I will have to start all over again and having Noah in the ultrasound room was pretty rough too. But................
I do know that these things probably happen for a reason. So for now I am happy with my little family of three. Noah now seems even more precious to us (if that is possible). He was and continues to be a total blessing.

Now for some funny bits......

After the sonographer delivered the terrible news to me Noah asked me "Is that lady just a bit stupid?" I am not sure if he called her stupid because she made me cry or because he thought she was silly for saying the baby was gone.

Noah asked me a few nights later (while I was crying) "What's wrong Mum?". I said that I was feeling a bit sad. Noah said "Oh well, you'll just have to get another baby in there and then you won't be sad anymore." He couldn't be more right!!!!!!

He is a genius

What he has been up to this week

Pulling ALL of Mum's new seedling out to make flower & mud pies.

I asked Noah if he thought this would make me happy or sad....I got no verbal response but he did pull this ridiculous face.

Went to Little Learners in Kellerberrin for the very first time. He said it was good but the dancing was stupid. While all the other kids were dancing around having fun, Noah assumed the face down (aka little idiot) pose and refused to join in. It was a fear of mine that Noah would choose to exclude himself from song and dance. He does it at home too so it didn't really come as that much of a shock to me; although I did think he would be less inclined to do it if all the others were participating & if the teacher asked him to do it.

Anyway he did look pretty gorgeous that day.

Made a play dough jungle.

Eating like a horse.

This is Noah enjoying his 3rd sandwich for lunch. After such a big lunch Noah napped for 3 hours which he hasn't done since he was about one year old.