long weekend fun

this is the face of joy on a public holiday! today we decided to go bowling with the pinker crew and the kids had the best time. last time we went, we didn't put joseph in as i was a little worried he wasn't quite big enough, this time, you couldn't keep him away, he was going crazy, throwing the ball, trying to throw a 14lb-er and generally just getting into mischief. but we had so much fun. so many laughs... and joseph was actually kicking everyones butt until the 5th frame! his victory dance was something to behold... every time he threw the ball, he'd jump up and down on the spot (mostly not even watching where the ball was going) until someone made him come back and sit down. 

sharing a milkshake with big sis, apparently the most important part of the bowling experience.

afterwards we moved over to the arcade area where doug got to work winning the kids 8 hundred and something tickets, so they had a good pick from the prizes...

they just kept coming and coming and madeline was stoked!

such a good day. we love our pinkers! ♥

long weekend...

we just had a long weekend and i got to spend it just the way i like... with miss maddie! i thought i would thrown in some snapshots of what we got up to, just because you can never really get enough of her... 

sunday afternoon tay and teesh collected her from nursery and took her out to their car, where they let her honk the horn and jump up and down on the front seat of the car. she was loving every minute of it, and giggling like a crazy... such a crack up! we are so blessed to have people in our lives who love her almost as much as we do...

kieran and clark came over after church and hung out with maddie when she woke up, i plonked her on kierans shoulder like a parrot and she nestled there and watched youtube clips with them and chatted away to them... ahhh kizz. he's going to make such a good dad one day...

at family dinner that night - mads was all systems go on clarks laptop the minute he turned his back. they are learning young these days... maybe she was facebooking mason?

monday morning maddie woke up and called out for me, "mum mum mummmm mum-mum" - there is no better sound in this world. then, when i got her out of bed, she snuggled up to me and went straight back to sleep. i could spend my whole life this way. i swear that's when babies are the cutest - when they are fast asleep. find me any mother that doesn't agree and i'll be impressed.

later that day it was yogurt time and mads was chanelling her inner joker with a giant yogurt smile, right across her face... and spots all over the kitchen floor? much more fun for mummy to clean up i suppose! lucky she's cute... i tell myself that a lot!

aunty hayley dropped by in the afternoon and she and maddie had a play with her lip gloss. or should i say, maddie had a play with her lip gloss, attempting to put it on both herself and hayley! the results were pretty awesome terrible. but so funny... 

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