tooth fairy fail

what do you do when you're daughter arrives home waving the tooth she just lost in the air, it's late and you have no coins whatsoever in the house? you wing it. i 100% stole this idea from a friend who did the same last week. in fact - i even had her text this to me and then changed her name to the tooth fairy in my phone. joke was on me when she called the next day and joseph yells- why is the tooth fairy calling you?! awkward. hahaha. but it worked - and the coin arrived the next day. phew. thank goodness for friends with dodgy amazing parenting ideas. 😂 follow us for more tips! 

alex is eleven months!

what the heck is going on? how is time going so fast? this time next month i will have a one year old and i don't think i am okay with that!

this month alex has:

-crawled around gotten into absolutely everything

-pulled out all the dvds over and over and over

-been kicked out of his capsule and into a rear facing seat so that aunty jenny's new baby millie can have his capsule

-put anything and everything into his mouth

-pulled out the cereal at any possible opportunity and when it's the froot loops tips throws the box onto the ground and tries to eat them off the floor like i don't feed him

-walked along on his hands and feet rather than crawling, kind of like he doesn't like to use his knees... it's so funny!

-for the last month or two he has been threading his necklace over his thumb when he sucks it. he just likes to have it there to feel. it's super cute, but very annoying when he tries to do it with my necklace and almost chokes me!

baby alex, you are so, so loved! ♥

maddie lost a tooth!

what a milestone!

miss madeline lost her first tooth last week and couldn't be prouder of herself. she came to me a few days before telling me her tooth was hurting which baffled me a little, until i pressed on it and it moved! oh she was so thrilled, her friends have started to lose their teeth and she hates to be the last.

a few days it got super loose and was just hanging by a thread in her mouth at which time she came to me and told me she needed me to help her (ew gross!) so i wiggled it a little until it popped out of her gum! then we left it out for the tooth fairy who was super generous and gave her $4. (lucky kid. that was purely because her grandparents happened to be at our house and doubled what we had haha)

our little girl is growing up at a crazy rate... it seems like just yesterday she was a baby - and now she's turning six next week!

a little big boy bed

we finally took the side of master josephs cot, after he managed to climb out of it every morning for about 2 weeks straight and he's not been too excited about it. until i discovered a lightning mcqueen pillow case in the cupboard and alllll of a sudden, he couldn't get in there quickly enough! haha.

then, gumtree saved the day, when doug discovered this gorgeous vintage style disney cars cot set and now it's on josephs bed, he is thrilled, he's sleeping in there without trying to run off and my little boy seems to have suddenly gotten a whole lot bigger :(

where did the baby go?

where did my baby go? this little girl is off to kindy 5 full days a fortnight next year and we went to buy her uniform today. oh my word. i've never seen anything cuter! apparently she is never taking it off, maybe i'll remind her of that when she is a teenager haha. 

i don't know if i am ready, but i know she is!