First day of school 2010

This is the first year the boys have all happily posed for their first day of school photos.

Riley has a new teacher Mr Connor and is in another composite class 3/4C. He was over the moon with his teacher as he is young and plays lots of fun games. Also he and Ethan are on the same class again, now 5 years in a row.

Nathan was hoping to get Mr Bennett after seeing him play the guitar after last years graduation ceremony. Lucky for him he got him and was so excited with his new teacher and his classmates. He was also pleased to be away from Ethan and Christian as he didn't make the best choices when playing with them. Mr Bennett has whooping cough at the moment so his wife Mrs Bennett is filling in for him. Nathan loved that she used a glue stick as a microphone and everyone sang Happy Birthday to him since his birthday was on Saturday.


Cooper actually had his first day on Wednesday after missing the first three days due to our camping holiday and Australia Day. Darren dropped him off since Jonathan was coming over early for a play. When it was time for Darren to leave he dropped on the floor crying as he didn't want Darren to leave. He is in the echidna class with Miss Emma and was excited to be back playing with his friends Anthony, Jayden, Callum and Riley. He asked me to pick him up on the first day with the boys and a chocolate. He loved the Mars Bars and thought they had honey inside them, it was the caramel.

My Favourite Summer Memory

is swimming all day in our swimming pool and then my mum bringing my dinner to the edge of the pool so I can eat it while still in the water. Gosh I loved doing that.

New Background

I have loved the look of the black background but after seeing Lisa's post I just knew that I wanted to change the look of my blog. I got the link from Simply Chic and it was pretty easy to do.

I am off to collect my new TV cabinet that I had custom made. I am a little nervous as to how it is going to look. Fingers crossed.

Riley this week you...

1. Had 2 sick days off school due to a nagging cough
2. Finally got to sleep at 9:30pm after coughing constantly for two and a half hours.
3. Enjoyed some ANZAC food on your last day of school including condensed milk, corned beef, camp meat, ANZAC biscuits and SAO's and cheese.

4. Wore mufti day clothes for last day of term.
5. Walked mud through the house when we got back from school.
6. Played Bratz on your DS and asked me not to tell anyone.
7. Packed your own lunch for school when I was running late, which included a large box of tiny teddies.

8. Had honey and eucalyptus lollies to try and soothe your sore throat.
9. Walked to the car with Brooke.
10. Made a whole range of guns out of textas and put them on your display shelf.
11. Had a meltdown when Cooper broke your "bestest gun ever"

12. Enjoyed playing the Wii while Grandma looked after you at Dylan and Jared's house while I did reading with Nathan.
13. Brought home your school report. Mrs Bouvet thought you worked very hard and had a "flair for writing". We were very pleased with how hard you have been working at school.

14. Wanted McDonald's for your reward dinner and loved the Ice Age 3 toys that you got.
15. Told me that you thought Daddy was playful and smart and that he was a good dad.
16. Played Runescape on my computer while the TV repairman replaced the TV. You asked me later when we got a new TV.

Another late night

I was doing some grocery shopping when I got a phone call from Darren "Mel you need to come home Cooper has split his head open in the shower" click.

So I race home to find Cooper with a clump of blood soaked hair and the other two boys crying. They were playing in the shower and Cooper got knocked onto the tile edge and had cut his head. After sweet talking Cooper we managed to lift his hair to see if he needed stitches and sure enough there was a big cut about 2cm long. When Riley heard us say that Cooper needed stitches he burst into another round of tears, he remembered his own experience of getting stitches a few years ago.

Darren and the boys took Cooper and I into casualty. We only had an hour wait til we got a bed, Cooper was happily walking around the pay area of the emergency department with a huge bandage on his head. He tried to rip off the tape holding it in place but it was over his hair so he gave up pretty quickly. Finally we got a bed in the children's section and it didn't take long for the doctor to come around and inspect his head. Cooper was so brave throughout the whole ordeal, the toughest part for him was removing the tape from his hair. We had to wait there for 4 hours after the incident to make sure there wasn't any internal bleeding. By 10:30pm Cooper was getting a little restless and we kept him entertained by reading books and playing with baby toys. Finally we got the all clear to come home by 10:45pm and Cooper was alseep within 5 minutes of getting into this carseat. Luckily Grandma came up to watch the boys so Darren could come in and keep us company.

The Good and The Bad

The Good: I finally got a good shot of the little wrens that have moved into my garden. There is about 6-7 of them and they start out the front, eating bugs of my roses then they move out the back. I can hear their little tweet when they come into the garden and I love to watch them from the dining room window. They are also very shy so it is hard for me to sneak up on them.




The Bad: Since we have had two solid weeks of rain the weeds have multiplied in my garden. I have vowed to try and do two buckets of weeding each day to try and get some control on the weeds. The vegie garden is the big culprit and I am sure it is seeding the rest of the garden. At least my rhubarb is still growing, even after Cooper got to it with the scissors.

Butterflies

Over the last few weeks I have noticed lots of butterflies flying around the backyard, really big and pretty ones. Today I noticed this one fluttering around so I grabbed my camera and went looking for it outside. It flew over the back fence then back again past me to the cumquat. I chased after it hoping to get a shot. After it flew off I noticed it had laid any egg on the tiny cumquat.