shamed out

here's me...

oh. my. gosh. 

i cannot believe this. history is repeating itself. ugh. the last thing i wanted to happen has happened... miss madeline is turning into a finger sucker, just. like. her. mum.

it no longer bothers me now that i'm almost 28 to admit that i sucked my fingers until i was 12 - and i don't want her doing it!!! augh. i'm trying and trying and trying with the dummy - it's much easier to throw away a dummy than to hack fingers off!!

and miss maddie

happy anniversary jen and mat

it is so hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that a whole year has passed since my bestie jen, married my friend from kindy - mat. a whole year! we had a celebratory lunch at the restaurant where they had their wedding today (btw - won't be going back there... but luckily the company was better than the food!) and had a great old time laughing it up and reminiscing. thankfully today there were a few less flies than there were at the ceremony (one of their actual wedding shots is mat dousing himself in aeroguard. hahaha)

the traditional first wedding anniversary gift is paper so i made them a tree with the lyrics of their bridal waltz printed over and over through the branches, and two hearts hanging from the bottom branch (and yes, i may well have gotten the idea from pinterest thank you very much - and seeing as it's the first thing i have made from pinterest, i'm a little proud of myself!)



anddddd the back...

a day out with the two of us is never complete without one of these...

happy anniversary kids!

here's to many, many more...

loveshya!

freebies!

there's nothing like a good freebie!... and i scored one last week. when i was preggers with miss maddie i was in coles one day and saw a pamphlet for the coles baby and toddler club so i decided to sign up - since then, i have gotten an email every couple of weeks with handy tips, competition and recipes etc, a magazine in the mail every now and then and last week the magazine had a voucher for a freebie bag which had so much cool stuff in it! excuse me getting all excited, i'm beginning to sound like a real mum over here aren't i?!

the bag had two baby spoons, two nappies, baby food,  a dummy, nappy sacks, lotion and a voucher to buy two boxes of nappies for the price of one. (which i promptly did...) score!

rugby world cup

yesterday was the rugby world cup final for 2011 and we had a mini party with jamie-lee, mark, tony and deb. maddie was the star of the show in these little booties that were loaned to her for the occasion, and she was thrilled when daddy's team (also now her team!!) won the game!

anyone who knows me will know that rugby is not at all my thing (i think that my mother-in-law almost had a nervous breakdown when she realised she was gaining a daughter-in-law who had absolutely no interest in the sport), but maddie i am sure will love it just as much as her daddy when she grows up.

me however - i love the haka. i mean i love the haka. and you my friends can watch it here.

halloween party

 on saturday night our friends lisa and brandon had a halloween party at their house. it was amazing! we decorated the place with spiderwebs, skulls, pumpkins and more - and ate ghost shaped sandwiches, halloween candy, rice krispy treats with candy corn on top and heaps more junk... and then played halloween charades and murder in the dark.

mads was an absolute trooper, stayed awake for nearly the whole thing with just a few quick naps on peoples laps... but did not get cranky at all... i freaking love that kid! what a machine.

but the costumes... the costumes were the best bit. all up between the three of us - our costumes cost a grand total of $5.50

i was mary poppins, which was so much fun to put together - black low heeled shoes and stockings i already had, skirt and nanna shirt i borrowed from chelsea (ahhh chelsea... for all your nanna needs!) bowtie and sash made from red ribbon i may have stolen (ehrm relocated...) from work - so flipping easy - twist twist and a few stitches then safety pinned on! my long red jacket, white cotton gloves, my black umbrella and tapestry bag andddd... my $2 hat from vinnies with a fake flower. easy peasy!

doug was a vintage golfer - old school lace up shoes that were handed on from a mate, knee high black football socks with his $1 tweed pants from gsi, shirt, ugly vintage tie, cardi and suspenders from the wardrobe... my tweed hat and carried around a golf club.

and miss madeline, a pumpkin wore a 50c onesie from vinnies that her daddy so kindly drew a jack o' lantern face on... orange tights, a green headband with a mini bow on top (made by aunty pip!) that looked like a stem and a $2 mini pumpkin mask from coles. she was adorable - and even wore the mask without complaining. :)

some of our friends came up with the most hilarious ideas for costumes too... brandon was an old made complete with cardi and grey hair (courtesy of maddies baby powder) dannii was a pirate wench, lisa a witch, lissette a pregnant nun (hilarious!!), matt and mel were harry and hermione and the winner of the best costume prize - cody. he was the best by far! a terrorist... had made dynamite and taped it to his chest, carried around a detonator, smeared his face with black eyeshadow and had bought big eyebrows and a beard. so so funny. i can't believe the things people come up with!

so freaking good. can't wait for the next one!

happy 60th daddy

dad and his newest grandbaby - miss maddie  

my daddy is sixty today! can you believe it!? it's a pretty big birthday - so we (as in me and my three big brothers) went pieces to buy dad some experiences instead of gifts from red balloon. we are pretty excited about what we got him - being 1) two hot laps in a v8 supercar and 2) a romantic sunset cruise on a luxury catamaran for 2 leaving from the fremantle fishing boat harbour. the first because if turning 60 wasn't enough to give him a heart attack - we thought we would find something that could - and the second, because he and mum grew up in freo, met in freo, got married in freo, had us kids in freo... and love the place - and each other, and never like to be apart - so what better experience than one you can share with the person you love the most!

happy 60th daddy! if only there was a chance we could have you for another 60 years! :)

i love you!

flippin' adorable

how flippin' cute is this kid?

she gets cuter and cuter by the day i swear!

just thought i'd show her off some more!!

x :) x