At my house: Isaac Thomas

Apparently this young man is turning four tomorrow! As we are having his Buzz party on the weekend, we needed a whole other cake for his birthday day - hence our dinosaur that I have been slaving over this morning with directions I might add on m&m placement!

Where does the time go?

*Some things you might need to know:

• Isaac was 11 pound 3 at birth - hence those cheeks and squished up eyes. And yes, it was a c-section!
• The cake is from a Donna Hay Kids issue.
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• I'm posting this birthday pic today cause tomorrow we'll be far too busy opening presents, going to swimming lessons, kinder, handing out birthday treats to everyone we come across and having afternoon tea with some friends so we can munch our way through that dinosaur!!!

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At my house this week:

We are in full party prep mode for a young man's 4th birthday next week! Eeek!

I am attempting to return to work! Double Eeeek!

And I am getting sucked in by cute photos of the smalls!

Isaac's kinder recently had those Vision portrait people in where you pay $12 for a family photo in a frame and then when you go to pick it up you get suckered in to buy the rest because there are some dreadfully cute pictures of your poppets and they all happen to be looking normal, with smiles on their faces and in the direction of the camera! And you know how hard that is to do yourself! Could you have left this sweet picture behind?

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Aaah, the joy of school holidays. Do you love them, or hate them? I tend to swing both ways, depending on the day we've had! We need to plan and prepare for them well in advance or anarchy reigns! I must ensure that each day the boys get a run - just like dogs, and that we have some serious 'tv off' time. We've planned a trip to Kew Traffic School, some playdates with friends, and we are praying for sunshine so we can get out to some of our favourite playgrounds. Today we stayed in our pjs till quite late, ran some errands at the shops - hence the Shrek kite making (a holiday activity at our shopping centre), played with lego and baked biscuits.

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... we have been growing dinosaurs!

...drawing in Prep while mummy does reading help!

...we have been having a picnic with Jemima, Humpty and Floppy Dog!

... we have been racing our cars on the back deck!

...and going to birthday parties!

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Is it cheating to join in on both things at once? I dont think so.... well, I hope it's ok anyway.

Point and shoot first up....

I think my little baby girl is growing up.

Monday, August 23rd, 8.30am

Those are two of the sweetest pony tails ever. She has the softest baby fine hair still but you have no idea how excited I am that it's long enough for ponies now! (Wonder how I got her to sit still long enough to get them in.... Play School!) Excited but freaking a bit cause babies dont have pony tails, big girls do!

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I think we have finished breastfeeding! Friday night, she fell asleep early and missed out on her nighttime feed. I went out on Saturday night so daddy put her to bed and because I wasn't there, she clearly survived without it. This has happened before on the odd night I have escaped, but the following day she seems to remember she missed out on them and will come to me at some point fossicking down the front of my top! Sunday night, she sat at the bench with her brothers and had a cup of milk with them instead of coming to me.

So is that it then do you think? I have breastfed 2 and a bit children for about 40 months when all added together! I dont mind if she hasn't finished and comes back for more but I'm wondering whether to offer it to her not. Anyone want to come to my 'burn the maternity bra' party?

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We haven't got an awful lot done today at my house. I woke up feeling quite blah and made an executive decision that while a certain young lady was asleep today I would not do any housework! What you can see is exactly what I have been doing.... eating lindt balls and surfing around some of my favourite blogs. The ones you see are dark chocolate mint and cookies and cream and are worth every additional love handle I have!

What I had every intention of doing was cleaning out my cookbook cupboard. I have a small addiction to cook books and recipe magazines and have an entire folder filled with recipes torn from magazines gone by. It really is getting quite ridiculous. I see lovely pictures of what others have baked, get the wants and think that, yes, one day I will cook exactly that. Never quite happens though. Dont shame me, but my husband does the majority of cooking in my house. When we first met I pretended I didn't know what I was doing in the kitchen, and, well, about 13 years later, this seems to still be working out for me!

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I have kinda cheated a little with this 'at my house', cause nothing has really been happening here today, except a bad case of Mondayitis for everyone. Instead, I have been playing around with Picasa 3 (which I am loving!) and managed to create a collage of some of the babushka things in Matilda's room. Yes, I am obsessed! And this is not all of them by the way.
Some of my favourites are the lovely big babushka from Morgan Wills; the lovely Little Matryoshkas book with pop out matryoshkas for each day of the week from Babys Got Style and down the bottom in the middle is Matilda's hair clip board my lovely friend Kate made with babushka fabric from ebay and loads of lovely hairclips from various sources (try Buttons by Lou Lou and Flirty Bird).

Can you point me in the direction of anything else?

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Joining in with Lou's blog this week as well... Quite the little joiner, aren't we! (Is that a movie line - maybe from 'Heathers' with Winona Ryder? Can anyone cofirm or deny?)

We have been very industrious in the kitchen today making 'chop chop' biscuits on a stick....

and being a super organised, super mum (cue manic laughter!!!) I have already organised and prepared the small peoples dinner. Porcipines on mash! Remember those: mince with rice sticking out so they look like porcipines with a tin of tomato soup dumped on top. All the little people in this house tend to eat them and ask for more so it's frequently on the menu here.

ps. for any interested parties, the 'chop chop' biscuits are out of the box (Betty Crocker baby!) and and dont forget to soak your sticks before cooking if your turing them into lolly pops like me. And my mince porcipine recipe is simply: 500grams mince, 1/2 cup rice, grated onion, salt and pepper. Mix together well and roll into small balls. Pop into a casserole dish and pour over a tin of tomato soup and a tin of water. Cover and cook for an hour or so. Careful, they are super hot when they come out!