No long weekend here :(

But the days have been fun all the same :-)
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The kids have been eating those 'cookies' (that's what Aaron calls them heheee) I made on Thursday. They are a bit hard, as you can tell by Aaron's expression LOL. But they are good in the fact that they last a long time haaahahaa (Maddison has hers for simply ages!)

This is a typical expression from Maddison ... lots of times during the day she will just come up to me and do this right in my face LOL Cheeky little monkey.

On Friday Lyndon got home a little bit earlier which was lovely, so we all went to a mall together, had a look around, had tea and then got stuck in the traffic coming home! What would normally take us about 12-15 minutes took us just over an hour. Didn't help that it was raining. But we chatted the kids fell asleep so that was good. This traffic jam was caused by 1 car that had broken down about 4 kms up the road from where I took this photo, after we got past him the roads were pretty clear. Don't understand why he didn't try and push it off the road a bit more!
This morning while the kids and I were in the shower Lyndon took some photos of this dragonfly that Aaron had spotted outside the lounge window.

They are incredibly ugly up close aren't they!

I tried to do Maddison's hair into a pony tail hehehee. Lyndon took some pics ... this one is her giving 'Rosie' the train a bit of a chew!

(Excuse the towel wrapped around my hair!) This is another nice thing Maddison does ... comes up and leans in for a hug. :-)

Just thinking ...

Someone left the shoe cupboard open!!! So out come the shoes.

Ponytail didn't last long ... I put little clips in her hair to hold the front pieces back, but she just kept pulling them out and putting the clips in her mouth. So resorted back to the coconut tree. At least she leaves the hairband 90% of the day.

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Lyndon & Aaron went off late morning to pick up some friends and they came back here from lunch. So we've had a lovely afternoon with them. Lyndon & Aaron took them home again around 3pm, while Maddison & I cleaned up a bit and I scrapped a LO ... need to photograph it though. Will share it either tomorrow or Monday.

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Hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

I want to join Rachel Greig in Scrap-n-Crop.com's ART RETREAT because ...

Well where do I start? :-) Just because I really really really want to go :-) Her name's Rachel so that's got to be good right?!! heheee (and I am pretty sure her hair colour is much the same as mine LOL) even better!!!
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But seriously ... I love what I have seen of Rachel's work plus I would love to met her in person and learn from her ... I mean seriously have you seen her list of published works?? ... oh my goodness it's enormous! Check it out here ... see what I mean! I got blurry eyed just reading that list. She makes some awesome stamps ... from her own photography no less! (I don't own any yet ... but I am sure I can remedy that sooner or later heheee).
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And besides all that Lyndon's looking after the kids for me so I can go ;-)
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If you would like to help by increasing my chances to win a spot to this awesome event, then check out the post here on Scrap-n-Crop's blog for instructions.
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Thanks :-)

Thrills & Spills for Thursday!

We've had a fun day today :-) We talked to Grandma and her sisters and my sisters boys on skype with the video link and they couldn't understand one word Aaron was telling them LOL. Aaron has been telling me tonight that "Mitchell is really sick and had to go to the doctor. He really needs to have a big sleep". ROFL Dr Aaron at your service!! What cracks me up is he gives out remedies that is exactly what he needs himself, but he never seems to take his own advice! snigger snigger
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After our phone call Maddison went to bed and Aaron surfed the Bob the Builder website (calls for some SERIOUS concentration and you must have the right hat on!)

While he was doing that I did some baking. Not that impressed though ... they were crunchy chocolate oat cookies, but they just aren't the same without the New Zealand condensed milk! The sweetened creamer here is quite runny and sugary, so they didn't look that flash once they were cooked. I used white chocolate too, hummm, decided I don't like the cooking chocolate here either (too fussy you say ... yeah probably!) Might try them again with some Cadbury's chocolate in it and see what that's like :-)

After lunch we went to Aaron's little school friends house to play. The kids had a great time. Maddison discovered the kids kitchen and the garden tap!!! So she was soaked in a very short time ;-)

Then they did some drawing ...

And Aaron cleaned the blackboard (note the tongue is on just the right angle LOL).

Oh and I must tell you this because it so cracked us up ... Yara got dressed up in some dress up clothes (see above photos) and when Aaron saw her he came running into the lounge telling us "Look Mummy there's a monster!" Oh my ... I think I need to have a little chat to him that it's not really the thing to do at all to call girl friends (and in particular little princesses) monsters! He's got a lot to learn :-}

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Lyndon's back from Singapore later tonight - he's been there for a couple of days.

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Wonder if he's bought himself a birthday present ...

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Speaking of presents it's our 14th wedding anniversary next week and this year's traditional and modern gifts are worse than last year (they were; traditional - lace, and modern - textiles or furs!)! 14 years is ... traditional - ivory and modern - gold jewelry! That's really handy isn't it! I don't wear jewelry (nether does he) ... maybe I can source an elephant tusk from somewhere LOL I think I'll flag those gift ideas ... save it up for next year ... the modern gift for 15 years of marriage is right up Lyndon's alley ... Watches! :-) :-)

Fun in the Playground

First of all ... this photo is for you Daddy! If I can just repeat what Aaron said to me ... please note that it's in a "SHOUTING" voice!! LOL
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"Look Mummy, a plane, see it? Mummy, see it? Better take a photo for Daddy!" heheeee, so here's the plane (and I have cropped the picture so you can sort of see the jolly thing). He was hopping up and down with excitement pointing ... you would have thought it was going to land in the playground the way he was carrying on :-)

This post is photo overload sorry ... so if you aren't Nana or Grandma and aren't interested in tons of photos of the kids then don't bother looking anymore :-) heeeheee (you have been warned!)

Maddison in her own wee world.

Before she hooned down the slide. (Yes she has to have her hat on because Aaron has his on!)

Aaron spends more time walking up the slide than sliding down it.

I believe he was telling Maddison to do something here (how unusual LOL).

I've made these pics small since there's a few of them ... but this is what the little miss does ... puddles in the fountain, picking out stones and licking them! Uewwwww ... disgusting. Actually I was just waiting for her to fall in .. she didn't though, so no photos (evil laugh). But spot the leg in the 4th picture :-) Elegance!

This photo she had just climbed to the top of some steps and she turned round and looked at me as if to say "well get on with it and take my photo!" So funny I had to laugh.
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And here Aaron is laughing and pointing at Maddison (probably when she was puddling in the fountain).

This is pretty typical - Aaron chucks his ball in the water then hops, runs around the edge of the fountain.

So of course Maddison has to try that too (thankfully she wasn't doing the hopping though!).

And this is to show the pond of liquid fertiliser thanks to the turtles! Yuck (thank goodness Maddison wasn't licking the stones out of that pond!).

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Oh and something else funny I have noticed Aaron saying today. He's been calling Maddison and I "Darling". :-) Totally cracks me up. This afternoon he was playing with his matchbox cars and woffling away as he does, then I hear "oh careful Darling, there's a corner there, watch out for the village, wow, so fast". LOL So we aren't that special after all! He calls his cars Darlings too! ;-)

Something else exciting to countdown to ...

Scrap-n-Crop have organised an art retreat with Rachel Greig. 6 awesome classes over 2 days.
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Woo Hoo ... I think I was the first one to sign up :-) You can too (well it will be easier if you live in KL of course! hehehee) ... check it out here.
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Lyndon has very kindly offered to babysit the kids for me so I can go both days :-)