Last day of January? Already?

well, I thought that my camera was working with the computer but...its' not. So, no pics from Catie's birthday. Not that I remember to take many anyway. I really need sleep so I can quit walking around in a daze. =) We did have fun for her birthday. Her family dinner was Tuesday night. She requested mostaccioli. And she wanted a cake with a hard chocolate shell around it that you break. And then the cake is covered in lollies and prizes. Well, we made the cake, she frosted it and I made the hard chocolate shell. She wanted to see it so I got it out of the freezer. It started falling out of the bowl so we put it on her cake. Yeah, it was about 10 minutes later that we remember that we didn't put the lollies and prizes on it. Oh well. On Wednesday we had cake and ice cream for breakfast. (she requested waffles but we didn't have enough eggs) We made cupcakes to take to the waterpark later. Then in the afternoon we went to the local waterpark. We hadn't been before as it opened the first week of school holidays and we didn't want to bother with all the people. As it happened Catie's birthday was on the first day of school so the park was nearly empty. Gotta love homeschooling. 3 homeschooling families came with us. The Sauvageot's joined us after school was out. The girls played for 3 hours and would've stayed until it closed. We finished Catie's birthday by letting her choose what fast food to have for dinner. It was definitely not a healthy food day but it was fun.

Hard to believe that tomorrow is February already. I've been telling myself that when February comes I'm going to cut out sugary stuff. And now it's here. So for the next 4 weeks I will not be drinking cokes or eating sugary snacks. well, I should say that I will TRY to not eat or drink those things. I chose February because January was VBS and Catie's birthday, March is Josh's birthday, April is Emma's birthday, etc. I kinda forgot that Jennie and Andrew have birthdays in February. =( Oh well, it needs to be done.

I fed Nathan some rice cereal and a tiny bit of pear and banana this afternoon. He acted like he liked it and it doesn't seem to have affected his tummy like last week. He's actually asleep right now. Hopefully he doesn't sleep really long this evening and then be up at night anyway. But last week he was up late because I fed him and I didn't want that to happen again. He's getting so big. He is almost sitting up and I think he is getting teeth too. Since VBS he has been very clingy though and very much a mama's boy. Might be the age too??

We started school two weeks ago. Last week we only had 3 days due to Australia Day and Catie's birthday. So back to normal tomorrow. Well, after the guy comes to measure and quote for insulation. =)

cakes, cakes, cakes

I'm linking up to Life As Mom's Birthday Cake Round-Up.

hard to believe

that this little baby is turning 7 today!!
Happy Birthday, Catherine Joni!!

ever been this tired??

"Not Me" Monday

Most Mondays MckMama hosts "Not Me" Monday. She's on a cruise at the moment so don't know if she'll have it this week. Anyway, I've never joined before but figured I definitely could after the weekend I "didn't" have.

Friday I did NOT happily shoo 3 of my children out the door with their Grandpa to go away for the weekend. I did NOT get caught up watching "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" on youtube and not have time to tidy up for the youth leaders meeting at our house on Friday night. So I did NOT take the laundry that needed to be folded and throw it in my child's room. I did NOT accidentally give all the youth leaders an iced chocolate topped with chocolate sprinkles that had weevils in it. And if I had I wouldn't have totally freaked out about it.

On Saturday I did NOT totally ignore my messy craft room and instead go shopping. And we definitely did NOT take all the grocery money I saved by not shopping this week and spend it by eating out for every meal (except breakfasts) this weekend. I did NOT eat something that kept me up all night sick to my stomach.

On Sunday I did NOT totally forget that the laundry was in my child's room so when she showed her Grandma her "new" room they walked into a pile of laundry. I also did NOT feed my son cereal for the first time in hopes that he would sleep longer than 2 hours at a time. That did NOT come back to bite me in the butt as he spent the next three hours with a sick tummy and gas. And therefore I did NOT go to bed so late that I am having a hard time doing anything this morning.

nope, not me!!!

flat cousins

Beka, Nathan, Catie, and Emma

Flat Brandon inspired us to make flat versions of ourselves. =)

Flat Brandon

at the shark show

at VBS

at Tooan Tooan Creek by the flying foxes. see them hanging in the trees?? Flat Brandon looks a little worried!! maybe it was just the smell?? =)