All That Matters......

My mind has been occupied with something which it shouldn't be worrying about ~ something which is not in my control. Tonight when I went to check my girl, she made me realise that it just doesn't matter ~ nothing else really does.

I love you so much Babe ~ 5 more sleeps.....

Birthday Present Number 1 of 49878484

:P

Well, it goes without saying that Kara will be getting too much for her birthday next week. I can't help it. She's too gorgeous not to spoil :P. I also feel that she's had a shit of a year and deserves to be spoilt BIG time for her special day.

Present number 1 arrived today. It's an enclosed trampoline and my first suggestion if you are getting one ~ get help to assemble it LMAO. It took me just over 3 hours and my hands are blistered from pulling the bloody springs. I did have 2 helpers ~ Kara and Olivia ~ and after feeling like a cow for saying that Kara couldn't jump in it until her birthday, I caved and they had a ball!!!!

8 more sleeps and my baby is 5. Still in denial.....

For all the Mum's

I'm not a huge fan of country music but just listened to this song for the first time and I love it! The lyrics are fab and the clip brought a tear to my eye.....

A Perfect Day!

Kara and I had the BEST day today ~ you know those days when you just enjoy your child sooo much you want to constantly squeeze them? LOL

We went to Monarto Zoo ~ a free range zoo 50 kms from Adelaide and we hadn't been there for a couple of years. We had grand plans to go last week but I got that horrid migraine so we postponed ~ I'm sooooo glad we did now, because today was the perfect day for it. Kara just loved it to bits and had so much fun.

The highlight of the day was hand feeding the giraffes ~ I have taken about 150 photos (literally) of them but will stick to posting a couple here :P Kara was beside herself ~ she was beaming. She then insisted on riding a camel LMAO ~ all was good until she got on and the panic set. I ended up joining her and she was rapt ~ apparently we're going back in a couple of weeks for a longer ride!

I am just loving having a weekend with my girl ~ it makes soooo much difference and gives us the chance to do these types of things together. I feel like I want to pause life at the moment and keep Kara as a 4 year old just a little longer....time is just going way too fast for my liking.

xxxx

Chasing the wildlife......

Just looking gorgeous :P ....

Feeding the Giraffes!!!!

This was cute!! The box reads "World's Most Dangerous Animal" and it took Kara about 5 mins to pluck the courage to look inside... when she did, she saw her reflection in a mirror...

A Lily Update LOL

I'm sure you're all really needing to know this pmsl.

A couple of days ago, Kara screamed out "Lily's dead", Lily being our stick insect. I went to check and Lily appeared to be sitting on a branch, not looking very well LMAO. Then, I noticed Lily was actually on the ground.... she had shed her skin and the perfect shape was left behind. It was a little freaky actually. This led me to Google about shedding and the first thing I read was how they eat their skin. YUCK. It grossed me out and sure enough, an hour later, only the shape of legs remained......

Lily now has a new leg (one had been cut off somehow before) and little wings. She went for a kindy visit today and the kids loved her!!!

I just added the first b & w pics because I looooooove them :P

Hope all is well for you out there in cyberworld.

xxx

A Gorgeous Day....

It's been a shit of a week!!!! I've been sick again and had a migraine from hell over the weekend ~ not nice. That involves me lying in a dark room, bashing my head and vomitting. Then, once it goes, I have a hangover feeling for a few days.

Today's the first non-groggy day, so Kara and I went to the beach (for a swim) for the first time in ages. I LOVE summer weather!!!!! Back to 19 tomorrow but up to the 30s by the end of the week, so more beach visits coming up :)

My girl is growing up so fast. She's changed so much of late ~ both in her behaviour and her appearance. I feel like I'm the luckiest mummy in the world.

Oh, I still suck at using my new camera :( I've borrowed some books but that's as far as I've got. It's starting to frustrate me now and I still pull out my point and shoot :P

A Bowl of Water

Yesterday, Kara took a bowl of water outside and played with it for about an hour lmao. The bowl has an attached straw, so she sat there blowing bubbles, having an occassional sip. She thought it was the best fun ~ until she spilt it all over herself LMFAO. Look at her face in the last pic :P

Happy Birthday to Our Little Man...

Well, Tanya would debate who Evan belongs too :P but I think Kara may win that argument lmao.

Evan had his 5th Birthday Party yesterday (he turns 5 this week) and the kids all had a ball. Kara thought she was the luckiest kid in the world when we ended up having a sleepover there and even luckier when Evan came home with us!!!

Happy Birthday gorgeous Boy ~ you are such a special person in our lives and we are both so grateful to know you xxxxx

Some pics of the gorgeous ones....

So Divine!!!

There's some loony stalking my blog at the moment so I thought I'd continue posting, just so they can continue sending me lame messages to make them feel better :) There really are some very very sad people in cyberspace ~ some who need to 'move on' as I've been told many times by them.

I dropped in to Ow's place yesterday cos it had been a while and OMG how cute is this baby!!! Ted is just growing so fast and I couldn't believe how much of a liking to her Mummy the first photo is HAHAHAHA...... I didn't get pics of the other kids ~ Raph was too busy eating whatever she could find outside (she is sooooo cute!!!) and Bruno runs when I get the camera out.

Yayyyyy ~ The looooong Weekend is OVER :P

Well, I don't really care what some people think ~ I am SO happy that the long weekend is over. My girl is home where she belongs (:P) and both of us are rapt. She hasn't stopped cuddling and smooching and I have heard "I love you Mummy" more in 48 hours than ever before. Thankfully the next long stay isn't until term 1 school holidays when Kara will be much more used to weekends and it won't be such of a big deal for her.

Thanks to those who understood the challenge of last weekend ~ you more than made up for the lovely anon comment left LMAO!!!

Anyway, today we went to the zoo with some friends and it was fabbo. I took my new camera and totally suck at taking pics so far but got some OK ones. I've looked into courses to learn how to use it but no can do ~ they are at really odd times. I'm off ot the library this week to find some DSLR books for Dummies!!!

Here are some pics from today ~ a few too many but the best out of about 200 pmsl.

Kara and Olivia ~ I just LOVE the expression on my girl's face in the first pic... she looks so happy :)



Kara Feeding the Animals ~ she loves to do this....

One of my Favourite Birds ......