Canvas

Here is a canvas that I made a couple of weeks ago. I had painted it and was going to put a "She" quote on it by Kobi Yamada, but I seriously stuffed it up, so I wanted to cover it over! You can't see the detail very well in this photo, but I have distressed the edge of the cream cardstock and doodled a line about 1/2 a cm in from the edge in silver. I have also roughly stitched some journaling lines in the top right and written "you ROCK little man (03/08)". The red cardstock is stitched on and then ripped off and the flowers are stitched and then distressed.

I am teaching at the local scrap shop (LSS) as of next term and this is going to be one of my off the page projects. I would love to take about 2 classes there a week, one at night during the week and one on the weekend, so hopefully they will take off.

The garden and some photos of the kids

We are borrowing a little trampoline from L and G at the moment. Caitlin thinks it is just the greatest! She would spend almost every waking moment on it if she could! She has learnt how to bounce down onto her knees from standing and yesterday she got brave enough to bounce down onto her bottom. She thinks she is pretty clever. I got some cute action shots and here is one of many.




She still will not push herself on her trike. It isn't that she can't do it because she can - I just think she likes doing it the way she always has and she is pretty stubborn, so there is no convincing her that there is any other way! She has her smock on in this photo because we had been doing some painting.




My garden is coming along so nicely at the moment. I love growing my own fruit and veg and being able to go out and pick an apple or orange when I want, or choose the vegies for tea and go and get them from the garden. I also love being able to give some away. Craig thinks this is a bit of a waste, but I like how much people genuinely appreciate getting something out of someone elses garden. Here is a shot of my oranges - aren't they yummy looking? Mum, wouldn't you love to go out and pick your morning orange fresh off the tree every day? They still have a couple of weeks to go because they are still a bit tart.




Here is a picture for Dad - my broadies are looking yummy already! I hope the soil condition is OK because they are planted where the slabs were laid in the old chook shed. I fertilised well, so I hope that makes up for it.




And finally, we have a mellon on our watermellon vine that has been there for about four months and done nothing. I think it has not been getting polinated, so now there is one on it, maybe we will get some more (then we will get a rippa frost and it will be gone!). It is about 15 or 20 cm long at the moment and growing fast.




Look at this cheeky little man! Callum is teething at the moment and he is getting about four teeth at once, so he is in quite a bit of pain, poor little boy. Unfortunately for him he takes ages for the teeth to actually come through, so he may be like this for about 3 weeks. He loves putting this ring in his mouth because it sits just nicely on his gums where the teeth are coming down.



When I saw this photo I realised just how much he is changing at the moment. In this photo he is looking much more like a little boy than like a baby. Wow - he is eight months old tomorrow!


And guess who is finally sitting up most of the time! He just loves to throw himself backwards though, so he can often be found staring at the ceiling again!



This is a photo that I took myself of Cal and me, because I forget to ask Craig to take some. I think he was watching Caitlin at the time!

Healthy?

Caitlin and I saw the naturopath about 4 weeks ago and have been on a pretty serious diet change. Last winter we were so sick with colds and gastro that I just couldn't handle it again for another winter, especially with two kids to look after now.

Erin has cut wheat out of our diets and reduced the amounts of dairy and sugar we consume. I have also given up coffee and tea and almost completely given up chocolate too!!! (not quite). It took me about 4 days to detox, and boy did I feel bad! I guess Caitlin was feeling that way too, but I couldn't see past my own headache at the time. We have given it a really good go - on the weekend Craig accidentally made us pancakes with wheat in them and Caitlin and I both had a really bad reaction to it. Caitlin was still distressed at bed time. We will know for the future that pancakes are not the best food for us. Caitlin, I think, has had the most amazing change from our diet changing - she is so even tempered, sleeping really well, very well mannered, energetic and just a joy to be around. None of the mini tantrums that we used to get either. The most remarkable change has been in her bowel. For the first time in her little life, she doesn't have diarrhoea, which I think would pretty much indicate that she has a wheat intollerance!

We will see how good this new diet is... I have a cold lurking around but not really coming to anything at the moment, so we will see if I can fight it off. We see Erin again on Thursday, so it will be good to get a progress report from her.

Our weekend

A funny face from our little girl!




Today we continued our never-ending project of sorting out the backyard. Caitlin decided that it was easier to ride in the wheelbarrow than dig the dirt.



She had fun because she was "helping Dadda" which lasted all of about 5 minutes, then she decided that the trampoline was more fun.

The Eagles finally won "Yay", the poor Dockers again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. I thought that it was a frustrating year for Eagles supporters, but I really feel for all the frustrated Dockers supporters.

Craig.

Take a photo Mummy!

Caitlin loves having her photo taken (most of the time). I suppose I have subjected her to it since she was born so she has gotten used to it! Today I was taking a couple of photos of layouts and she piped up "take a photo of me eating apple shoo (stewed apple) Mummy" so I did. Isn't she gorgeous? I love her so much!





I am having a LeReve aromatherapy party tomorrow afternoon and I am waiting for my chocolate cake to finish cooking. All I want to do is go to bed! So, what better thing to do than update the blog?

Catch you soon.

Update of Callum

So much has been happening in the short like of Cal lately. He had his first swing in the baby swing on the 5th of April and he loved it so much. Caitlin thought it was hilarious that he was in "her swing" and laughing at her and watching what was going on. She had to push him and no one else was allowed!







Callum had his first hair cut on the 24th of April. He has gone from a dark and shaggy haired boy to a little blond bombshell! He looks like a real little boy now, rather than a baby. Here is a picture of Deanne cutting his hair. I was really surprised how much she had to cut off. I think it is funny too that most babies are well over one when they need to have their hair trimmed and my shaggy haired kids were both pretty little when they had a trim up!



This is a shot of my little boy with his new "doo". Pretty cute hey! Just look how light his hair is! The chair he is sitting in is Craig's old chair from when he was a child.




I will update on Miss Caitlin in another post.

Bye XX

First Layouts

This was my first layout for Caitlin! Wow, my scrapping has come a long way since then!


This was my first layout for Callum. I love this photo so much, partly because it is so hard to catch an impromptu moment like this.

Some Old Photos

I thought I would start with some cute photos of the kids when Callum was just new! This is a photo of Cal at only a day old. Can't believe that he is pretty much blond now! Little cutie!



Here is a photo of all of us at the hospital. Looks like Caitlin is giving Cal mouth to mouth!



I love this photo, even though it is heavily photo-shopped. I scrapped this one first!




Callum at one month and Caitlin at 2 and 8 months. I adore this photo. It shows how it will probably always be - Caitlin kissing and cuddling Callum and him just taking the adoration in his stride!

New blog

I thought I would create a blog just for scrapping and family stuff, so that friends and family had somewhere to view pictures and catch up on what we are up to.