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 boy turned 9!

 

We went vintage Womens Weekly Birthday Cake this time round....

 

 

...The Football Cake!

 

Does everyone else do the present unwrapping on their parents bed?  We snuck the bike in behind him while he was unwrapping another exciting gift - socks and jocks!

The Dimples!

 

We went to Bounce in Glen Iris.   It's basically a massive warehouse full of trampolines! I quite possibly might have had a bounce or three myself.

We also dealt with a massive green eyed monster today.  Poor Isaac - every gift Oscar got was all of a sudden the only thing he ever wanted in his entire life!  It was all very melodramatic!

 

I learnt a big lesson myself today too.

Never kiss a 9 year old boy in front of his mates.  Not even if you are the closest girl when the knife hits the bottom of the cake!

 



 

Happy Birthday Oscar!  We love you very much!

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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oscar is 8!

We only booked the pool party for the water slide!

Isaac wasn't quite game enough to give it a whirl!



Inflatable pool fun!



Safety first!

Isaac gets a helping hand during water polo!

Angry Birds tableware (ebay!)

The finished Angry Birds Cake!  That poor tim tam wall struggled to stay upright in the car trip to the pool!

 

The best we could do with the official family photographs!

(Thanks for all the lovely comments on my icing angry birds in the previous post too!  The kids loved them!)