6 months

Roma is almost 6 months. It is a beautiful age.

At 6 months she beams her radiant smile freely at any willing person.

She giggles and squeals with the cutest baby sounds you can imagine.

She is no longer fragile and delicate, but strong and incredibly soft and velvety, with skin that begs to be kissed.

At 6 months their facial features start to come through, and for the first time you are able to get a little glimpse of who they might be when they get older.

I manged to find a photo of each one at 6 months, i have been quite surprised at how different they all look. I love finding similarities within their faces. Looking at their photo whilst knowing their personality so well now is a surreal and nostalgic feeling. 

I decided not to tell you which one is who, i thought it might might be fun to see you can work it out!

Gloating Parents!

Well, can you believe it is the middle of the year already? Mid year break is upon us which means report time!

Now before i go ahead and show off my perfect kids reports, let just say that i am aware that it is politically incorrect to write un-positive and mean things in kids reports these days. And i don't think one single child in Australia will have an unsavoury  comment  written about them. But! Please just let me be a proud and gloating parent briefly.

Lets start with Banjo, you can probably remember my post about starting school. Well he has absolutely loved it, and settled in with almost no drama's at all! It seems like a lifetime ago that he didn't go to school! That is how relaxed and comfortable he his.

He has excelled in his reading and writing, more so then Hero did in prep and we are so proud. At home, we are still working hard to teach Banjo better listen skills, using manners more, and thinking of others more often, so when we got his report  I did have check that the name on the cover was infact Banjo Partos-Slattery!

With reports like, "Class Effort - Excellect!", and "Work Habits - Ellcellent!'"
"Banjo ALWAYS displays a positive attitude towards learning and consistently produces work that is beautifully presented" It was a little different from the Banjo we get at home!

He has come along way since the beginning of the year and it is such a buzz to watch him strive and learn at such a fast pace. Below is an example of his work at the beginning and a more recent one.

                               

                                      26th March 2012

         

12th June 2012

 Hero has a beautiful sole and anyone that knows her would agree. But still, when a person that you don't know very well speaks so highly of one of your children it can bring you to tears!

Hero's teacher this year is a real winner. And through primary school you will have some not great ones and some real standouts, like Mrs Kebble. This all helps, but at the end of the day, your child has to adapted constantly to the changing school environment and learn how to stay above the water of school life, and Hero's resilience and enthusiasm is incredible to watch.

We are so proud of you sweet pea .

Good things come in 3's!

These beautiful babies come from my dear and closest girlfriends. 

Not only are there 3 babies, but at one stage the 3 of us were each in one of the 3 trimesters!

Spencer James Hibberd

31 March 2012

Jenson Ward

30 May 2012

The 3rd is of cause Roma.

Spencer is Lizzy's 1st bubs,

Jenson is Carli's 2nd bubs, 

and my 4th! (Nearly worked)

I have had to wait a while for my girlfriends to start their families, but the wait has been worth it. I love seeing them produce beautiful babies with the best and most supportive men be their sides. I am loving watching them turn into wonderful strong and confident mothers and now i am going to sit back wait to see these little cherubs grow and become their own individual.

Dont Spencer and Roma look like they are do a dance!

                         

Love you girls!

Getting them back into your hands!

Not sure how many of you use or know of Instagram, but i have been loving it! I love how it instantly records my daily life with ease. (you can find me at vip123.) The only problem was having these photo's live in cyber space. As a photographer i still like to handle prints in my own hands. Which brings me to Blurb.

Below is a book / album that i got printed with my instagram images.



My Family

I am already looking forward to printing the next one!!

Banjo's Birthday

It has been another long wait  in-between posts sorry! But time just doesn't  seem to be on my side at the present.

We have just celebrated Banjo's 6th birthday this week and it has been a bit of an ordeal! So much so i thought i might let the photo's tell the story!

Birthday countdown

"I don't feel well Mum..."

Over the last fortnight i went through 4 bottles of medicine!

Trying to put on a happy face! Even with his new
board. 

Party time helps distract the symptoms. 

last minute throw-together cake

A rare smile from the sick birthday boy

Running out of steam!

The Golden Bed

This was my bed when I was Hero's age, and i remember feeling like a little princess sleeping in it.

It is a late 1800's brass bed that was given to my Mum and Dad by an old family friend. I always new it as 'The Golden Bed'. I can't remember when i stopped sleeping in it, but it has been in the back of Mum's shed for the good part of 25 years! Mum always

We picked it up on the weekend and managed to clean it up a little assemble it for Hero. It was truly delightful to she how excited she was to have her first own bed, and so proud that it was once her Mum's. I got a real kick out of seeing her delight, which took me back in time to how i felt when i first started sleeping in it too.

I would love to know who else has slept in it?

Priorities

How do you prioritize? I am feeling quite overwhelmed with things that need to be done. For example;

Domestic jobs

• tidying
• cooking
• cleaning
• laundry
• gardening
• sorting
• food shopping
• packing lunches/snacks (and tying to be healthy about it )

  2.  Administrative jobs

• opening the mail! Not to mention completing and returning forms!
• reading numerous newsletters to stay informed with goings on
• signing permission slips
• paying term fees for outer school activities 
• locking into the diary important dates 
• then finding someone to look after the kids if it is not a child friendly appointment! 

  3. Family jobs

• reading and writing with each child
• kicking the footy or playing trucks or helping write a ballad (with Hero!)
• Roma's tummy-time
• Roma's feeding time
• Finding lost toys (Hero's Leap Pad has been lost for 2 weeks and i still haven't managed to find time to have a good hunt for it!)
• my exercise time
• my eating time
• seeing my husband!

All this is pretty much day-to-day jobs, and of course at the moment life is really busy, so figuring out which is most urgent or important is really hard!

It feels as if any of the above things were left unattended it would have a serious impact. I am really quite unsure how to manage it all.