Jaz did some painting this morning and I just had to share of course! She painted a flower! I LOVE this, if you look carefully you can see she drew it first and then painted the colours over the top. I just love kids artwork! I love how she cut it out with my old paper scrapping scissors too! (a bit hard to see properly on the scan)
Blink and you will miss him up to his little adventures, of course I should know by now when he goes quiet I should check what he is up to.. I saw him not 2 seconds earlier doing something else, and the next thing I know…this is what he is up to… after having gone suspiciously quiet…
He took great delight in showing me just how clever he was and so I had to quickly get the camera out of course.. in my haste the photos are less than perfect, but better to get the moment with less than perfect pics than not at all!
His walking is getting more and more steady and he is actually starting to stomp now. He used to be a very loud crawler, and then when he started walking he did it so carefully that he would easily sneak up behind you but now that he has the hang of it he is well and truely making his path known! Every now and again he picks up a bit of speed and of course it then doesn’t take long before his speed is too fast for his legs and he topples over. He is gathering quite a collection of bruises since he started walking!
He has been testing us this past week or so with lots of early mornings or waking during the night. I haven’t been able to work out if he has some sort of mild tummy virus or if he is teething. No sign of teeth yet, so who knows. The last two nights he has slept through and not woken till 6.30am so we are both starting to feel a little more human again!
I have finally managed to get Kyan to drink Soy milk and the other day I even managed to get a whole cup full into him! YEAH! So I am giving up on the goats milk as I still haven’t decided if he was tolerating it ok or not. Most of the time he will still only have a few sips of soy here and there, but at least we have some progress.
Jasmine painted some beautiful Easter Eggs Yesterday! 
She had a wonderful time painting them and I thought they were so gorgeous I just HAD to share!
She was sooooo excited this morning when she woke to find that the Easter Bunny had been and left some little eggs and bunnies and pieces of carrot, complete with bites taken out of them in her room. (we left out carrot and water for him) She was soo excited to tell us all about it that she could barely spit out what she was trying to say. Then it didn’t take long before she was off and searching for the rest of her booty!
Kyan was not to phased by it all and was quite happy to watch Jasmine scurry around! We managed to find him some Dairy Free eggs so that he didn’t have to miss out on Chocolate, but he was not remotely interested in the chocolate but did quite like the pretty shiny paper! LOL All he wanted to do was unwrap the eggs and throw them around like they were little balls. (he loves throwing balls and anything else for that matter!) Anyway, I had a taste of one of his eggs and OMG they are quite yummy, and the best part is I could eat them without worrying about if it will upset his tummy.. I will try and hold out and let him get used to the idea of eating them but if he continues to refuse them I think I will claim them.
A Happy Easter to you and yours!
I hope the Easter Bunny treated you all well!
My brain is totally fried at the moment.. have been working on a kit but have lost all inspiration due to lack of sleep.. so rather than work on something that just isn’t happening I decided to do a layout for a change for a bit of relaxation! My oldest friend from High School sent me a photo of her first born Son Jed.
He is just the most adorable little man with a little cupids bow mouth. I suspect he will be a little heartbreaker when he grows up! Anyway, I couldn’t resist doing a layout with this adorable photo, so here it is! I did it with my Cheeky Monkey kit and Grunge Rust Metal Alpha’s.
I just had to share this gorgeous layout done by PamPie one of the very talented team members at CD. Isn’t this just a gorgeous layout! I so love how colourful it is and how well it goes with the photos. Click on the layout if you want to leave Pam a comment in the gallery. It was created from a kit by one of our new designers Serenity Digital Designs aka firen. Check out her kits in our store here.
For those of you who haven’t visited our store lately, we have some new and fabulous designers now who just happen to all be Australian! We have room for a few more skilled Australian designers so if you are interested checkout the forum for further information. The designers who have joined our team in addition to Bag of Scraps, Honie Designs and myself are as I mentioned, Shelleyrae, Kylie Clark aka scallywag, Debbie McKenzie, aka macasm8, and Serenity Digital Designs aka Firen as I mentioned above. Oh yes, and how can I forget! We are having a sale for Easter! 50% off! Come and check it out!
Phew, I think those are my plugs for the day! LOL
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I have been meaning to send an update all week! Kyan is now walking full time. It took him about 2 weeks to decide that walking was the way to go over crawling and at first he was sooo tentative with his steps, but he is now gradually buiding up more and more speed. I am sure it won’t be long before he is running!
He is really loving exploring the house all over again and when we stayed at my brothers on the weekend he thought it was wonderful to be able to walk all over their rather large house!
Kyan has now for the last week or two dropped back to one nap a day. It has been coming for a while with my dropping Jaz off and picking her up from kindy as it really disrupted his nap routine and he decided he liked one nap a day better!
Jaz was still having 2 naps till about 15mths.. but then she has always been an amazing sleeper. (might be why she took so long to night train!)
I am still working on Kyan’s weaning. I have got him drinking some goats milk again but I haven’t worked out how well he is tolerating it yet. He woke last night screaming so hopefully it wasn’t from the goats milk.. shouldn’t be tho as he had it twice during the day and was happy as during the day. (even had a 4hr nap!)
Oh and ‘DIS’ is is favourite word of the moment, drives us nuts because if you don’t give him ‘DIS’ right away he throws a major tanty! LOL
I have been tagged by Kylie Clark aka scallywag and am to highlight and tag as follows…
I have to pick someone, and highlight them, and then pick three other people for some highlighting of someone special themselves! So here we go!
I pick PamPie to highlight because I love her digi layouts, and how much work she puts in as a team member at clikchic designs. She goes above and beyond and is a lovely lady to boot! She is a wonderful muse and is fantastic at inspiring me!
I TAG diginellie, gemma and katef
Hi everyone!
I decided to move my blog from blogger, since I had a spare domain handy and I was wanting something a bit more versatile than blogger. So, if this is your first time to my all NEW blog! Please update your bookmarks/favourites!
How do you like the new look? I think it is a bit prettier than the old one! YEAH!
This is Jasmine’s wish list!
From time to time she mentions things she would like to have, so I thought it worthwhile to add them to this list, in case friends and family would like to purchase something as a gift for her birthday or Christmas.
I have been meaning to post all week about the show last weekend. We took the kids to the show and we had the most wonderful time! Jasmine had an ABSOLUTE ball at the show and Kyan was on his best behaviour too even tho he hadn’t had a nap all day.
Jasmine got her face painted again this year. Dean and Jaz went alone last year because I was not yet up to going to the show after having only had Kyan a short time beforehand. I was still recovering from the c-sect and didn’t feel up walking around for several hours just yet. (not to mention being rather tired etc!)
Anyway, I as looking forward to it this year since Jasmine had such a wonderful time last year.
She got her face painted last time too, but last time was a mermaid, even tho I could have sworn it as a butterfly! Anyway, this time she is fairy and I thought she looked adorable! She rather enjoyed it herself and I suspec felt rather pretty! I tried to call her Fairy Jasmine but that didn’t fly.. it still is JUST Jasmine! LOL
As I said, Kyan also LOVED the puppet show. He was clapping with everyone else at all the appropriate times and even watched most of the show which I found amazing!
Jasmine went on the jumping castle as well. My have jumping castles changed a lot since I was a little girl! They are not exactly a castle anymore but rather a jumbo slide and mansion rolled into one! LOL
Last year, apparently Jasmine would not go further than the very front part of the castle. This year, she climbed right on, headed straight for the ’stairs’ to the slide and began climbing…she climbed, and climbed and climbed, my heart was in my throat when she slipped a couple of times…but she managed to hold on. I was sure when she got to the top and realised just how high it was that she would get upset and I would have to climb up after her.. since I was the closest and Dean was with Kyan. I was soo not looking forward to THAT idea! Anyway.. she got right up to the top without hesitation…and well the pics say it all!
The pics really don’t show just how steep those ’steps’ were and how steep that slide was.. I can’t believe she not only went down the slide, but went back up again for more! When she got to the bottom after her first go I was flabbergasted, as was Dean. She was exhilerated and promptly told the guy running the castle that she could do it now because she was a BIG sister! He he. She then continued to tell him that she was very strong and had big muscles. ROFL!
I am so dying to scrap these photos, but have not yet had a chance.. hopefully this week! I need to get some layouts done as I have been given the opportunity to have a book of my layouts custom printed. I had better get cracking!
I am thinking about changing my blog to my own site. I want to make it a bit more personal and pretty it up a bit. First I need to find some good easy to customise blog software that is free. LOL Suggestions are welcome! I am looking at wordpress.. it doesn’t look to bad but I am not sure how easy it will be to customise, I want something a little different than the standart templates.
Continuously play that horrible horrible ad on tv of the car accident where the baby gets hit by a car. I HATE that ad with a passion. The first time I saw it I felt physically ill. Now whenever it comes on we try to change the channel so we don’t have to watch it. If I am not near the remote I cover my hears and shut my eyes till it is over.
I quite honestly find that ad traumatic to watch.. is there REALLY a need to show all the terror, blood and gore of such a horrifying accident in such graphic detail?? I think not. I am sorry but I think in this case their shock tactics have gone WAY to far. I wish they would get rid of it. It has been playing for a while now and I have soooo had enough of it.
Ok, there is my rant for the day.. I really must ring the stations that show it and complain..(just another thing to add to my list of things I have to do!) Ok, that is my rant for the day!
I am very excited to have been approached by Trish Jones to host a fundraiser kit for Cyclone Larry. She, Tracy Ann Robinson and Kylie Clark (who is one of CD’s recent new designers! ) designed the kit in order to (obviously) raise funds for Cyclone Larry victims. I am ecstatic to be able to do my small part by having the kit in our store. As you can see by the preview, the kit is just GORGEOUS! These gals have really put together an amazing kit!
I managed to get it uploaded just before I went away for the weekend (my very patient hubby waited for me to finish in between packing etc) and we stayed at my brothers. Of course his puta is being fixed so I couldn’t check how sales were going and I was going crazy. Anyway, we got home this evening and sales are doing great. I am soo happy to see that there are many designers out there whos names I recognised, who have been supporting the cause and a large majority of people buying the kit are American! THANK YOU!
So, if you love to digiscrap and want a kick butt kit, or if you just want to contribute to a good cause.. or know someone who would enjoy the kit, head on over to the clikchic designs store, and buy it now! All proceeds go to Cyclone Larry Victims.
Jasmine did a drawing of a flower at Pre-Prep today. She told the teacher it was a flower for the Caterpillar to eat. I thought it was so cute, I just had to scan it for my blog!
I haven’t been involved in PCOS support for a while now, since the kids came along I don’t have as much time to devote to it. My priorities have now changed from conceiving being my primary focus. I always said that once I had my family I would get started on improving my lifestyle so that health played a much more important focus for me. While we were trying to conceive I just didn’t feel I could focus on both infertility and weightloss.
I have always made some kind of effort to try and eat healthy, although this has somewhat fallen by the wayside with the Chaos of having two kids! However, now that Kyan is getting close to weaning, the time is coming that I need to start getting serious about eating low GI, getting back on Metformin (in the hopes of preventing diabetes) and hopefully loosing some weight.
Weaning Kyan is proving to be a challenge. He cannot have cows milk as he is milk protien intolerant. He has soy in his cereal and his custard, but will not drink it. (don’t blame him!) I have been told you can get soy yogurt so we will have to look out for it next time we do shopping. I had gotten Kyan down to two breastfeeds a day, and then he developed gastro so I had to increase his feeds again to keep his fluids up and as he wasn’t up to eating/drinking much but tolerated his breastfeeds really well.
I have only just got him back on fruit again which is still giving him a little bit of diarreah. My next step is to try goats milk. I gave him a little yesterday and he didn’t think too much of it, but on the bright side, he didn’t get any adverse reaction to it. Given his severe reaction to pizza crust that had dairy in it, I think that was a good sign! If he won’t take goats milk I am not sure what we will do. At the moment the only drink he will drink is water. Anyway, I will keep trying the goats milk and see how he goes, hopefully he will develop a liking for it. Jasmine had no interest in forumula until she completely weaned, so maybe Kyan will be the same with milk.
Anyway, I digress! Once I have weaned Kyan I am going to concentrate more on loosing weight. With Jasmine I lost all my pregnancy weight without even trying by the time she was 8wks old, but 12mths on after Kyan and my pregnancy weight is still hanging around. So, it is time to get serious!
While I am no longer active in PCOS support groups online and in real life, I am still a member of POSAA. I am pleased to see they are still up and running. It is great to see! For a while there it looked as if they wouldn’t continue. What got me started rambling about PCOS? I got sent a link to a PCOS article by one of the committee members of POSAA. Great article! Thanks for sharing Shayne! It has reminded me I need to get stuck into doing something about it again.. I have been pretending I don’t have it for a while there! LOL I could certainly use some relief from my constant lethargy. Hopefully loosing some weight and getting started back on Metformin will help me out there. As soon as I have weaned Kyan I will go to my gp and get a full health workup done, and then get stuck into it. I think it is probably about time I had another GTT done as well. It will be interesting to see how my insulin resistance has held out since I was last tested!
Anyway, enough rambling from me!
