12/52

Oscar, Isaac, Matilda - the only photo I had of you all last week after we took Milo for a run around the park!  Don't tell Darren he's made a cameo on here - he doesn't 'do' social media!

I couldn't not pop this amazing cartoon Isaac made for me up! I'm the character with the golden hair doing all the fancy moves.  My favourite bit... the opposition player in green in the last scene with the speech bubble incredulously wondering, "How is she doing this".

11/52

I'm late! I'm late, for a very important date!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Oscar, Isaac and Matilda - My three loves getting their own sibling love on, even if it does only last five minutes!



10/52

Matilda - who doesn't love some sandcastle making at the beach.

Isaac - running away from seaweed and jellyfish!

Oscar - having a think, I think.

Joining in with Jodi.

9/52

Oscar and Isaac - fully immersed in Minecraft cheater books!!! (And off for a boys weekend in Tassie to watch daddy race his speedboat so a quick snap on the iphone before either of them realised!)

Matilda - cannot go past some rainbow face painting at the Red Hill Market with mummy on our girls only weekend!

Joining Jodi.

8/52

Better late than never....

Oscar - pre 50m butterfly, calm and relaxed and just happy to be getting the morning off school.

Isaac - just casually walking into school in his homemade minecraft mask.... because why not?!

Matilda - getting comfy on the bookshop floor.

Joining in with Jodi at Practising Simplicity

7/52

Oscar - clearly iPhone images cannot capture the delight that are the freckles which dance across your nose!

Matilda - who knew that school would give me the opportunity to display my hidden talents as a hairdresser... this was my poor attempt at a love heart braid for Valentine's Day!

Isaac - obsessed.  Completely and utterly.  Minecraft and Terraria have provided this child with a vocab I simply cannot participate in!

I don't know how on earth I will manage to keep up this picture taking each week!  Once the kids are all at school, opportunities for a secret snap disappear.  And I'm embarrassed still that the iphone is my camera of choice! 

#notreallycuttingthemustard

6/52

Oscar - Sunburnt and squinty but clearly a winner at the swimming trials! 

Isaac - I have been in love with your beautiful lips and eyelashes since birth.

Matilda - such a big girl now at school during computer class (mummy was on parent help!)  You could not meet a girl who loves school more!

Joining in with Jodi at Practicing Simplicity

5/52 ~ A new Preppie!

Matilda - experiencing one of life's big moments this week with the first day of school!  She loved it!  And so did I....

Three kids at school for mummy! Yay!

 Oscar and Isaac - started back the day before Matilda with Grade 4 and Grade 2!

Such spunks!

Playing along with Jodi at Practising Simplicity



4/52

Oscar - exhausted after I forced him on a bike ride which, GASP, included hills!

Isaac - inherited his mother's love of craft of course, here in his homemade Minecraft suit! 

Matilda - school starts for you this week miss!  Lucky you have your own homemade hopscotch to take with you!

The 52 Project - a portrait a week, every week, for 2014

3/52

I pledge this year to buy an actual camera!!!  The blurry, grainy iphone shot really does not cut the mustard!!!

Oscar - a little obsessed with a friends very sweet baby girl! 

Isaac - exhausted after 3.5 seconds of cricket!

Matilda - Braids, her signature hairstyle these days! 

Joining in with Jodi at Practicing Simplicity



2/52

Isaac

Seriously.  This kid... our family joker.  We no longer know what to do with him and his toilet humour.



Matilda

Looking for cloud bunnies whilst swimming in near freezing water.

Oscar

Piggy backing a sweet friend.  They met each other in the womb at pre natal classes almost 10 years ago!

 

Playing along with Jodi at Practising Simplicity.

1/52

 

A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, for 2014.

 

Since my only camera is on my iphone (oh, the shame!), this is how we are going to roll!

 

Cousin Taylor was a welcome visitor this week - all my small people love her.  Officially one of the nicest teenagers going around.

 

Joining in with Jodi at Practicing Simplicity.

 

 

The tooth fairy

Get the rotten child?!  I am assuming that is an updated version of tiggy!

And the tooth fairy (otherwise known as daddy's wallet) did indeed leave $20.  How could she not when a note like that is left for her!? And it was a front tooth!

 

Days later....

The second big tooth get's the wobbles!

Poor tooth fairy!

 

 

 

 

"To the tooth fairy.  I have lost my very big tooth.  My dad pulled it out when I was drying myself.  I got dressed and mum came home and I showed her.  It is like $12.95.  Now I have no front teeth.  From Isaac Robinson"

 

$12.95... Well, that's the price of the bug magazine the newsagent is currently selling with the awful dead scorpions and spiders moulded into clear plastic that go with it!

My creative space... ta da!!!!

My (Isaac's!!!) Crochet Mario Blanket is done!!!!!
3 months late and finished in the heat of a Melbourne summer.  Perfect timing really.

252 five round granny squares joined as I went along.
Ends sewn in over the last few days.
One round of double crochet in each stitch then one row of treble stitches around the edge in pale blue!

8ply 100% pure wool from the classics collection at Bendigo Woollen Mills.

Inspiration drawn from here.
Pattern drawn from here.
And here's where I first started it.

I first started doing this in May 2011 and had planned on giving it to Isaac for his sixth birthday in October, for which we had a Mario themed party.  Life in general kinda got in the way a wee bit, I kept running out of wool and having to order more and I basically got sick of the sight of it!  It appeared to be this never ending project that I wanted to ball up and throw in the back of the cupboard never to be seen again!

I'm glad I perservered in the end because he really does look wonderful!  He is frightfully huge and ridiculously heavy but clearly Isaac can grow into him!

Layed out on my king size bed, just so you can understand his size!

I asked him to pose nicely on the blanket... he farted and then couldn't stop giggling so I guess you could say the blanket has been 'boy' christened!

Lucky he still likes Mario or I would have been in a whole world of trouble!

These are all the ends snipped off after I sewed them all in.  That's at least 2 ends per square - 252 squares x 2 = 504 ends, plus one or two extras for the edge and the occasional run out of wool mid square!  I actually stayed up very late the other night sewing and sewing and sewing whilst watching Carrie on Foxtel.  Freaky movie!  Did you know John Travolta is in it?!

 

Now, I know there is a tradition in blog land of hurling finished crochet rugs into the sky and photographing them beautifully as they parachute to the ground but since this thing weighs a ton I give you this instead....

"Come hither... Mario and I are waiting for you!"

 

Other beautiful creative spaces are right this way.

It's tooth fairy time!

 

Yesterday we discovered one of Isaac's teeny tiny baby teeth had a case of the wobbles.  He didn't even realise it himself, I just noticed it was sitting on a funny angle.  Today it fell out!  He's soooo pumped for the whole tooth fairy fiasco but I feel a little sad about it myself.  Is there anything cuter than teeny baby teeth?

 

We have the challenge now of what the Tooth Fairy may bring since his brother remembers and reported a $20 note was delivered to him on his first lost tooth!  I remember getting a 50cent coin for mine and thinking all my Christmas's had come at once.  It used to burn a hole in my pocket so I was straight down the corner shop for a bag of mixed lollies with it.

 

(This poppet is going to hate those eyebrows when he gets older.  Have you ever seen bushier ones!?  He has such a sweet face though with gorgeous eyes, long lashes and lovely thick hair.  He would have made the prettiest girl!  Even a game he has on his Nintendo recognises him as a girl which he is most unimpressed with... you take a photo of yourself then shoot balls at your own face...! )

Proud Parenting Moments #763

So, the boy's school gives out Student of the Month awards at assembly.  Not everyone gets one.  I've known parents who've had smalls at the school who have never recieved one.  Frankly, I find them a little annoying.  You have good kids who happily plod along getting good results, behaving themselves, playing nicely who never get an award.  Then you get the child who just about murders someone on a daily basis in the playground but one day, for five minutes, actually does what they are told and get awarded for it!  (Excuse my rant!)

 

Late last week we got the call asking that we might be needed at Monday morning's assembly as someone was getting the big call out!  I did ask Isaac's teacher whether he might be getting one for good spelling during his graffiti stint, but apparently no.

 Trying his best at all times and being a nice friend to his classmates.

(such a spunky boy!)

 

And of course, there is no way Isaac could have been a sensible child who calmly walks out to the principal in front of the entire school to recieve his award.  Of course not. 

 

 

Clearly, I have a class clown in the making!

 

Proud parenting moments #485

 

We rarely see our neighbour so when she knocked on the door this afternoon I knew there must have been a problem...

 

 

oscar isaac sista dad mum

and a police car apparently

 

All clearly written in permanent texta on a fence that is not ours!

 

 

 

 

Clearly they had to clean up their own handywork!