D is for Dance ...

Whether you have dancing shoes on or a mop!  My helper was cleaning the balconies a couple of days ago and the kids decided they would "help"!!  My helper and I stood back and had a good giggle at their shenanigans!!

D is also for distraught!!  Not sure why he was so upset here ... I don't think it was the clothes, because he had stopped crying by the time we got to the car!  Just being cranky I think!!!

I got some good pics of him at school in the little outfit that Aaron wore in 2008 (you can check that out here).  (By the way Aaron was so funny this morning.  He yelled at me that he "WASN'T getting dressed up in any ole Indian outfit".  So I explained that no he didn't have to.  But he keep yelling at me and then pointed to the outfit Samuel's wearing which I had hanging on a coat hanger on the door handle!  I said to him "do you really think you can still fit that?  Shall we try?"  hehee   He calmed right down when he realised it wasn't for him!  He doesn't like dressing up in Indian or Chinese costume much!)  ;-)

After I had dropped Samuel off at school, I rushed down to see Maddison.  The Kindy kids all dressed up in Indian costume today and performed a dance for us in the courtyard to some Indian music.  They were so cute, wiggling their fingers and shaking their 'booty'! hehee

I took this pic during their performance - it's less than half the kids.

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Why yes ... I do have a blog to update don't I!!!

Goodness ... it's been a while!  Sorry about that - life has been crazy busy and updating my blog wasn't at the top of the list!

So what's been happening?  Probably the thing that kept me most busy was doing a digital photo album. No I am not going to turn digital (didn't really enjoy the process at all actually).  When we were in NZ I bought a 12x12 hard cover 50 page album from GrabOne thinking it would be a great idea to do for our holiday (especially in light of the fact I still haven't finished scrapping our 2009 NZ holiday haha).  I had a deadline to complete it before my voucher expired (5th September) and I can tell you there were a LOT of late nights getting very frustrated trying to get it completed on time.  Lets just say that the program and I had different views on how things should be placed on the page! hahaa  Anyway it's done and it's arrived at my Mums today and she said it looked good (although she hasn't had a close look for any spelling errors ... I am sure there will be some as I found it hard to proof read on the screen).

What else has been going on ...

This big fella turned 7 at the end of August!  He opened most of his presents the day before because Lyndon was flying out early the next morning.  

We gave him a little bookcase to keep by his bed for books and his special things.  He was pretty excited about it all :-)

He had fun setting it up and gathering up his chapter books and special things for the shelves.

And when the big fella's at school the little fella gets up to inspect what exactly is on the top shelf!!!  Lego mini figures aren't safe up there at all!  haha

His birthday was on a Monday and I made muffins to take at snack time at school and he handed out his party invites.

Cinnamon buns and apple muffins.  Several of the girls were really cute and asked me for the recipes.

Samuel is enjoying Montessori ... although as soon as we get into his class this is a very familiar sight!!

So is this when I go to leave haha

But he's getting better at saying goodbye!  He loves those plastic animals.  The basket of animals at school has dinosaurs in it which he doesn't have at home ... so there's lots of roaring going on with dino fights!!

I have been down at school a lot the last few weeks.  I volunteered to be Class Mum for Maddison's class.  Should be fun!  ;-)  Good job lots of the mums have volunteered to help with things throughout the year.  Each week her class has a snack on Friday afternoon based on the letter of the week they have been studying.  Samuel and I went the first week and it was letter C.  Samuel decided the white board needed a bit more decoration while we were there!!

Oh yes ... much better heheee

C was pretty easy ... lots of edible things start with C.

Special hat for Malaysia Day.

Last Sunday we went to Tony Roma's for lunch (as we do!) and Harvey Norman had a stand in the centre of the mall ... Samuel rather liked the 3D glasses hehee

Yesterday we had Aaron's birthday party straight after school.  He's so predicable with his cakes (3rd year in a row he's asked for a racing track cake)!!  (You can see his 6th birthday cake here and his 5th birthday cake here.  Side note if you check out those linked posts ... Maddison stayed in her bed this year hehehee.)

The cake had 2 Ferrari's and a yellow car which had a bonnet that lifted up which I hadn't seen on a hot wheels car before - so cool and just right for the cake :-)

Aaron asked for a hot wheels party this year (his love for hot wheels hasn't diminished over the last few years!)  We hired the multi purpose hall at our condo for the party and it was really great.  Nice big space with plenty of room for the kids to run about.  I didn't do any decorating - but I did blow up about 20 balloons and left them in a corner.  That was a good idea heheee ... they spent a bit of time running around chasing each other, kicking the balloons, trying to get them to pop etc.

Aaron has lots of hot wheels but I knew it wouldn't be enough for 20 kids to play with and share nicely!  So I asked a friend if we could borrow his for the party.  We were very spoilt and amongst all the track we loaned got this awesome Dinosaur one.  It was very popular!  :-)

I had a barbie corner set up as well as there were a few little girls (siblings) there and also a Thomas the tank engine track set up.  The barbies didn't really get played with though but the Thomas track did and the rug I had in the barbie corner was used to skid little ones around on the floor!

Thirsty work being towed about on a rug!!

We played "pin the number plate on the Ferrari" :-)

I had set up some track before the kids arrived and left a lot of it lined up for them to make.  The funny thing was that the stuff I had set up was taken apart and used in their other track creations after about half an hour!  :-)

I had some things left over from putting goodie bags together and Lyndon told me in no uncertain terms that he didn't want ANY lollypops left in the house heheee  So I decided to do a "prize" tin.  All the left over items from the goodie bags went in the tin and anyone that participated in a game got to choose something from the tin (what made me laugh was that all the toys went first and there were still lolly pops left at the end anyway hehee ... I might have to sneak some into Lyndon's brief case so he can have them at work lol)

Samuel loved playing with the little soft soccer balls.  Love this photo even though it's really blurry - it's a perfect picture of what he's like!  :-)  So much excitement and energy in such a little person!

Aaron has lost two teeth this month already.  He lost one at snack time at school on Friday (you can see all the gaps in his mouth in this pic)  :-)

So "Tootie" the tooth fairy has been visiting a bit!  Aaron likes the tooth fairy here in Malaysia better than the one in New Zealand because the Malaysian tooth fairy writes him letters!  heheee

Today Aaron started playing soccer on the school field.  Lyndon and he headed off this morning - Aaron rode his scooter.  He got his tee-shirts and had a great time.  There's quite a few boys in his class this year playing so he was really happy.

I got a picture of him when he got home holding his new soccer ball he got for his birthday.  :-)

So that's us ... I'll try not to leave it so long till the next update!  I might even have something crafty to share in the next few days ... we'll see!

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Samuel's First Day at Montessori

Samuel started Montessori on Monday :-)  Here he is with his bag on ready to go in the morning ... love the tippy toes heehee

 Cool little backpack he got from friends for his birthday.

 The collection of plastic animals was an instant hit. :-)

 And he was all serious concentration with the stacking rings.

 I stayed with him for about half an hour before sneaking out the door when he wasn't looking!  When I went to pick him up he was sitting with the teacher doing a puzzle and had his dummy.  (Apparently he only had it about 15-20 minutes).  I stood just inside the room for a bit, then moved a bit closer, and finally sat on the chair in front of him and he still didn't notice me! hahaa  So I said "Hello Samuel" and he looked up, gave a big grin, said "Mumma" and came running.  I got the bestest hug :-)

He was happy to go off again today as well.  Fingers crossed that it lasts and there's no tears!

Aaron starts school tomorrow and Maddison goes for an hour and a half day on Friday before starting full time next Monday.  

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Photo Catch up

Here's a few photos from the last few days.

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Aaron opened up presents from Uncles, Aunties and cousins on Saturday morning. His face says it all! One very happy, spoilt little boy!

These were little packets of lego men :-)

Lots of this happening over the weekend ...
I always check the kids before I go to bed and Saturday night ... look how Maddison was sleeping! Silly little chook.
Sunday brought the arrival of MORE presents.
We also went out for lunch on Sunday with friends and I took the camera and didn't take one photo :-(

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On Monday morning we were down in the lobby waiting for Aaron's school bus and I saw the teachers arriving to the Montessori school Maddison goes to wearing traditional costumes! "Oh bother" I thought to myself! I knew I had to get an outfit for Maddison and had been looking, but hadn't found anything I liked and I didn't realise it was quite so soon! Whoops!

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After we waved Aaron off on the bus we scampered back upstairs and I got Maddison to try on the little Indian outfit she wore last year (you can see those pics here ... man she's got taller - you can tell by the door handle!). The top of the dress was a little bit of a squeeze and it was a bit shorter, but she didn't seem uncomfortable with it! The best thing though was she wanted to wear all the outfit this time! :-) She spent quite some time in front of the mirror admiring herself and flapping her scarf and skirt about! hehee

Today has been a public holiday I haven't got a lot done! These two have been very busy playing all sorts of games ... at one stage Aaron was "having" a penguin baby (it was up under his shirt) and the next minute he'd given it to Maddison to feed. What made me laugh the most was he gave her the penguin and promptly lounged back on the couch with a book and she perched up beside him "breastfeeding" the penguin!!! hehehee (one very good reason why you don't wear dresses when you are breastfeeding LOL)!

(Ahh no he can't read those books yet! He's just pretending to be like his Daddy!) ;-)

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The last week I have been busy scrapping and this afternoon I happened to look at Becky Higgins blog and she issued a photo challenge. So I thought I would take a photo from the couch in our computer/craft room.

Spill off from my desk to the couch! I seriously need to have a good tidy up! My craft desk isn't very big to start with, but I have been piling stuff up on one side and now all the working space that's left is a 12x12 size! That's a job for tomorrow I think.

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Here's a peek at one of the LO's I've done. I did 5 all up for a submission to Darkroom Door as a Guest Artist :-)

Yeah ... I got my stamps out and got inky! What fun :-) I scrapped a couple of pages from our holiday last year, one from 2004, one of my pregnancy with Samuel, and one of Christmas 2008.

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Other news ... washing machine still not fixed :-( I will be phoning the repair man first thing in the morning. He was supposed to email me through a quote last Thursday! Huh! Just useless. Doesn't help that Friday was a public holiday for their company and also today! But the rate things are going at the moment I'll be lucky to have a working washing machine by mid September!

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Right best be off to bed. Thanks for visiting.