its school holiday this week and im trying my hardest to plan activities for the whole week so that i won’t have a restless
and bored 5 year old in my hands…and let me tell you im almost running out of ideas already and its only day two! *yikes*

So far, we have been to the malls where they usually have some sort of school holiday fun activities….
it keeps her occupied for about 10mins max during the day (yeah that wasn’t a lot of help), and then we have been to the park
and to the library, and to give mummy a break we have coffee together while Logan is asleep LOL

Luckily for me, tomorrow i have her Nana to help me keep her occupied….and i just found out from WCC (Wellington City Council)
Spring brochure that there are kids activities in town that we can take the kids to during school holiday,
which we are planning to go to depending on how the weather is like tomorrow…

Today i took her to see Dora and then we had lunch together, then go to the park and of course we can’t forget my coffee break.
Don’t get me wrong, i love spending quality time with my kids….however im not sure i can survive the whole 2 weeks.
its pretty full on when im constantly on the go since i wake up in the morning until 7pm (if im lucky) when my hubby gets home from work…
well lets just hope i have enough energy to keep up with the kids for the next couple of weeks…

at the park, burning off some energy…

then off to my coffee break…this is my mocha, let me just say that this was the only break i get the entire day *sigh*

and a slice of chocolate cake that we shared together…oh my it was sooo yummm! this is where i get my energy from LOL

this is her “babyccino” which consist of frothy milk and marshmallows…

Claudia insisted that i take a photo of both our coffee together, obviously the big one is mummy’s and the little one is hers…

she gets this cool Dora Passport that keeps her occupied during the time i had my coffee LOL

and her reward for being good for mummy…a rocket pen which has 4 different colour (red, blue, green & black),
not that she doesn’t already have a gazzilion pens at home…coz thats what she does, she loves to draw and she loves cool pens.

and lastly we can’t forget her picture with Dora…

we had a Plunket appointment this morning and now that my baby boy is 6 months old the nurse recommended that we introduce solid food.
as usual the very first solid that they suggested was rice cereal…so we decided to give him his first solid lunch today.

well let me tell you one thing….introducing solid food is one messy business!
we had gooey cereal everywhere because he keeps wanting to grab the spoon…
so in the end i just gave it to him and he seemed to really enjoy playing and eating at the same time…LOL

im sure there will be plenty more messy business for us in the future…
however just to see his face and his reaction the first time he tasted the rice cereal was priceless!
sure glad i got it on camera….

i guess spring is kinda here after all….only because spotted this little lady in my garden while i was pottering about.
i think she usually comes out of hiding only during Spring time. I never saw her in any other season….
or maybe is it because i never really look for her when its too cold? LOL

For the first time in a long time i had to use my tripod again….i had to dug it out from our storage space quickly
just because i don’t want her to leave or fly away before i had a chance to take pictures.
The reason why i had to quickly grab my tripod was because it was quite windy (what a surprise there…NOT!)
and also the way she was moving around i cannot lean on anything to keep my grip steady on my camera when i change my shooting angle.

Anyway, i love how photogenic she was and i was lucky that she allowed me to have a quick mini session…
which was about 10-15 mins before she flew away.
I didn’t take my eyes of her the whole time i was shooting just to make sure i wont loose sight of her,
however i did checked my LCD screen for a few seconds and the next second i looked back, she was gone…i guess my 15 mins was up LOL

So here is the little lady who came to visit our garden…..isn’t she beautiful?

my baby is 6 months old….
wow, i still can’t believe its been six months since we brought him home from the hospital…that went by really fast!
he is growing beautifully and hitting his milestones as he should be….he can roll onto his tummy and back really well now,
in fact he just rolls around all over the living room floor everyday LOL

we are soo gonna be in big trouble when he starts crawling…
nothing in our tiny living room will be safe because everything will be within his reach…*gulp*
ohh btw, we just spotted his first tooth peeking out and seeing from the way he is chewing his hands and drooling like crazy,
im sure it wont be long before his other chompers will show up too…

he is talking up a storm eventho we have no idea what he is going on about….LOL
he loves his big sister, no matter what mood he is in (even when he is crying) he always smiles and grin when he sees his sister…
we love his smiley face, his laughter, his squeal, and everything about him….just love LOVE love him to bits!

I can’t even describe the feeling when we look into his crib/cot in the morning and seeing his beaming smile when he sees us….
its just the most amazing feeling and it makes everything worth while. He really is a delight and he makes our family complete…

Miss C had a special day at school yesterday…her class was doing a “Pirate Day” so she was going to school dressed as pirate
and the kids are supposed to be bringing a plate of finger foods to share instead of their usual packed lunch.

The thing is, i only just found out about this the day before, however the little miss told me that she has been trying to tell me about this all week
but apparently i had not been listening as i was too preoccupied with other things in my mind…*whoops, bad mummy!*

So i was feeling quite guilty about this as we looked around the house for things she can wear for her pirate outfit.

Since  we could not find anything decent i told her we should go to the $2 shop to get an eye patch and a pirate hat….
she told me she did NOT want to wear an eye patch because only boys wear eye patch! She was quite adamant about this,
so we proceed to get her a bandanna instead and i had to buy her a pair of new black boots because of course pirate wear boots she said…
and i cannot argue with her on this one. LOL

Well after looking around her whole wardrobe we decided on a stripey top and black and white tights to wear with her boots….
she said she also wants to wear a skirt because she wants to be a pretty pirate….hell i dunno if there is such thing as a ‘pretty pirate’
but considering this was a last minute effort we settled on a red skirt for her to wear and she was happy with that…thank god! LOL

So i took a couple of snaps of her in her pirate outfit before i drop her off to school, but because it was so cold outside yesterday we didn’t take many….then as i dropped her off to school she asked me to come visit her at lunch time. I told her i can’t promise anything but i will try my best.

By the time lunch time came around i was feeling pretty lousy as i was coming down with a cold…but i still remember that made promise to try and document our day to day life more often and i know it will mean a lot to Claudia if i come and visit her at school during lunch….so i braced myself, bundled up with a few layers of jackets in my attempt to keep warm and headed off to her school.

I thought i’ll stay for only a few mins to take some quick snaps and then i can go back home to rest….so i took a few pictures inside her classroom
while the kids were having lunch and left after about 20-30mins when it was time for them to play outside.

I was going to post these pictures yesterday, but i was so crook (sick) and i crashed right after the kids went to bed so im posting this today.
The first 3 pictures were taken at home before i dropped her off to school and the rest are the pictures i took at lunch time in her classroom.

I asked her to give me a scary pirate face and this is what i got LOL

this is her “don’t mess with me” pose lol

check out these cute and creative pirate food for their lunch…

having yummy chicken and popcorn for lunch to be a lean mean pirate machine hehehe

and then eating her so called “pirate sword”

with her friend Arno…

I just love Arno’s full pirate outfit…

and this is one of Miss C’s friend, Stella and her awesome pink sword…

Miss C and her girlfriends…

another one of Claudia’s friend, Jonty showing off his awesome pirate arm muscle to the ladies…LOL

Claudia and her wonderful teacher…

and of course we can’t forget her best friend, Denise….

and lastly, Claudia and Stella playing together during lunch…

Miss C loves reading…everytime we go out she will go to the bookshop and ask if she can get a new book to read.
Last week she brought home a book from the library and started reading it while i was feeding Logan…
he seems to be fascinated with it, so today we decided to do a reading session together.

She wanted to read to her little brother, so i asked her to choose a few books from her bookshelf that she wanted to read to her brother.
He loves looking at all the colourful pictures inside the book while listening to his sister reading…

I think we are going to continue the reading session… its a good bonding time for all of us, and the kids seems to enjoyed it.
I really hope he grows to love books and reading as much as his sister…

We decided to have a family brunch today and we had a wonderful time…
My dear hubby ordered his usual fave brunch food - the eggs benedict, i have a very yummy steak sandwich,
Miss C ordered from the kid’s menu - a ham and grilled cheese toasted sandwich, while Logan intently watched us enjoyed our food…LOL

It was such an awesome day….we are were blessed with a nice sunny day (the weather forecast for today was crap….im glad they were wrong!)
the food was tasty and we really enjoyed the nice and relaxing environment in the Espresso Garden Cafe. Well in short, life was good….

Here are some snaps from our brunch, which should serve as a reminder that we should really do this more often….

we have not had much of a Spring so far…and specially today, i think that we had all 4 seasons in one day!
one minute it was sunny, the next minute it was hailing and it looked like a storm was just about pass….and then it stopped and the sun comes out again!
i just wished whoever is in charge of the weather up there makes up his/her mind! LOL

oh and i’ve heard that the weekend is gonna be the same….the forecast is saying its gonna rain with gale northwest wind *blech!*

well i figure that maybe we should just put spring in a jar and enjoy it inside our house to hold on to until the weather makes up its mind! LOL
so here is my ’spring in a jar’….took these shots today in between the horrible weather when we had a brief sun burst.

Today i took my lil guy for his 5 months vaccination….i still can’t believe its been 5 months, wow time goes so fast!
He was a trooper and only cried for a short spell when the vaccine was being injected in and then he was all happy again after its over.
To be honest i think it harder on me to see that huge needle going into both his chunky thighs! LOL

Anyway, i decided to take more pics of him today…i just love his blue vest i got from Jakarta and his white fluffy bunny hat,
so i just had to take some pics with him wearing them. So here is my little tiger bunny…

in his yellow bumbo chair….used to belong to his big sister and now being handed over to him.

and he is always chewing on his hands now because he is teething, we can see a teeny bit of his chomper showing thru his gum.

Today i got invited to a baby shower as well as a farewell morning tea for a friend of mine from work.
We had a lovely catch-up….we talk a lot, catching up with gossips and lots of yummy food….what could be better than that?

Its always good when i get to go out and break out of my boring daily routine….and i really enjoyed catching up with my friends from work.

For this baby shower I put together goodies basket for my dear friend, it has a selection of stuff i have collected for her
ever since i found out she was pregnant. However, along with the goodies i want to give her something a bit more special and personal…
so i put together one small thing specially for her. I know you would probably guess that i made her a baby hat or a beanie right?
Well not this time…i will probably knit a hat for her baby boy when he is here,
but this time i put together a home made baby free range towels in the egg cartoon.

I got the idea when i saw a similar thing in a gift shop a while back….it was from a company called “babycupcakes” from Australia,
I have always wanted to try making it coz it looks so simple and very cute….so i decided to give it a go a couple of days ago.
I also included her official due date and her name in the ’special instructions” note inside the egg cartoon….
this was not included in the original design of baby eggs by “babycupcakes”, i just thought adding them in will be more personalized for her.

Btw, I’m a bit bummed that i forgot to take pics of the whole goodies that i prepared for her…
i finished wrapping the whole thing pretty late last night and i didn’t get a chance to take pics of it this morning
as i was in a hurry to go so that i’ll make it to the baby shower on time LOL
But luckily i remembered to take some pictures of the home made gift i made for her, so here it is…