A Very Special Dolly

Justin's Station Officer "Sally" (his boss) arrived at our house the other day with this very special dolly for Octavia's 5th Birthday. Sally had asked her Mum to knit this for Octavia, it is a ballet dancer girl her name is Rosebud and yes that is a rosebud on her bottom! Octavia has taken her to bed everynight (with the 4 bunnies).

Just Things At Our House

The other weekend I went to Sydney and found this cool jewellery hanger. All my necklaces were all messy in the wardrobe so this is much better.

After we tidied up the jewellery. Justin arrived home with the shoe organizer. Maybe it was because I had arrived home from Sydney with 5 new pairs of shoes.

These are our Hermit crabs, their names are Wayne, Dwayne and Shelly. I got them some new painted shells in Sydney so we are waiting for them to move to the new shells.

This looks very strange but I had to add a photo of this to show Carolyn. Octavia's godmother 'Carolyn' gave her this hatching crocodile and the growing unicorn below and she wanted to see how they turned out, so Octavia told me to put them on the blog to show Cazie. So here they are after a week of growing in the water.

Parties and Pressies

Princess perfume and a pink footy "What every five year old girl wants for her birthday".

Next was roller skates "Justin did check our health insurance"!!!

After having a quick lesson with Justin, I found her on the lounge reading her book!!!

She was checking up how to roller skate. She is soo.. by the book!!

All ready for the birthday party. Beautiful sweet girls! "Maybe"

Birthday Cakes

I am lucky that Justin's Mother (Nannie Chel) is clever at making cakes so the girl's just put their order in and they turn up looking like they are straight out of the book. This was Octavia's cake for her birthday yesterday. She was very excited about turning FIVE hence the cake.

I just had to show you last years cake (Octavia's 4th Birthday) I'm sure it took Nannie Chel two days to make. "amazing"

New Boots and Parties

All the kiddies were lucky enough to get new boots the other day. Here is Octavia and her cousin Jake modeling their new boots on Henny's coffee table "Like you do when you get new boots".

When you hear someone say big TV's are a waste of money "not true". Food and TV keep the kiddies quiet at Henny and Poppy's.

Piper joined in some boot modeling with Octavia.

Our little friend Sofia turns 2 this week and we celebrated with her many cousins and friends.

We are the best kiddie wrangler's around we had the children (eleven of them 5 and under) very orderly for dinner.

Cupcakes and Pedicures

Tavie and Daddy made some yummy pink cupcakes!!






Tonight at Tav's preschool the children had a night where they treated their Mum's to massages, manicure and pedicures. Just wasn't sure about the purple nail polished she insisted on putting on my nails. Very professional they were.

Been busy!

The twins ready for bed. They are going to hate me when they are older!

This was soo... yummy I had to share it!

This is what the girls get to do if Justin is late home from work. I don't think they mind that they have to come to work with me.

Piper demonstrates her child care skills. She will graduate soon with a Diploma as her class attendance has been often since she was 6 weeks old.

Justin took the girls to the park to practice their boat driving skills over the winter period.