Little Love

I'm trying to raise a little romantic.... So when Will and I saw these cute cookies at Coles this morning we bought three of them.

 

One for Will, one for his BFF girlfriend Sylvie and one for his other girlfriend LouLou.

The three of them do private swimming lessons together on a Monday afternoon at a house down the road.

We made a card for each girl using my heart hole punch.

 

Here are the words Will wanted to say in Sylvie's card.... 'Cheeeeese', 'Biscuits', 'Angelina', 'My be ballerina'.

The three of them ate their biscuits after swimming together.

And here are the two BFFs at Sylvie's Angelina Ballerina party at the weekend - so cute!

Jxx

Sneak Peek of Will's new room

It's coming together now and nearly ready for him to move into his new 'big boy' room! Hopefully he'll have his first sleep in his new room tomorrow night then I'll share the finished photos.

But here is a little sneak peek in the meantime...

 

 

 

 

Have a lovely Friday,

Fun with my little monkey & photobooth

My little monkey and I have been having fun with the photobooth app on my laptop. 

I love watching his expressions as he pulls funny faces for the screen. 

I thought I'd share them with you.... isn't he growing up?

I love looking back on my blog and watching my baby grown up. 

Eg. Check out this easter post from 2010!

Have a nice evening,

European Inspired Boy's Room for Will

Good morning!
Now that baby B is well and truly on the way we're starting to think about turning the study into Will's new big boy bedroom which we plan to do over Christmas.

So I've created a little moodboard to show you. I'm going to buy a white timber single bed and I've already bought the Esprit Star Galaxy  single bed set and he's already got the big Personalised Canvas World Map. Have I shown you the newest print in my range? It's a french inspired print that reads 'Our Little Man' with a cute little moustache. So I'll do one of them for his room.

The solder skittle set and hot air balloon are both from my lovely stockist Ministyle (I'm yet to order).
And the Jnr Replica Eames DSW chair and the red replica Componibili side table I will get from Matt Blatt.

I think it creates a European, little World Traveler feel.
What do you think? Do you like it?
I think it's a good toddler - young boy style room don't you think?

I'll probably add little extras like a retro clock and I've got to do up the cabinet which will stay in his room.

I'm quite excited about it!

Next up I have to decide what/how much of Will's current room I'll change for the new bubby boy.

Have a great Friday and I'd love to know your thoughts on the moodboard.

My little sports star

Will had his first toddler sports lesson today and he did so well!

The teacher said he was outstanding and very enthusiastic.

They learn basic skills in Tennis, AFL, Soccor and lots of general ball sport stuff.

Parents have to watch from a distance but I could see him listening and being so excited in each new activity. He was the first to grab a piece of sports equiptment and the first to make it to the one end of the tennis court and back etc.

So nice to see as you never quite know how they'll go with new activities.

He's always a little champion in his Mummy's eyes :)

Nail polish fun.... not!

How gorgeous is this image??? I love colour coordinated nails and I've been meaning to buy some new colours for spring/summer.

I tell you what is not so georgeous???
Discovering your son has gotten into your hot pink nail polish and finding it on the bedding, carpet, dresser, his hands etc....

When I came in and discovered him (and it only took about 1min from the time I saw him run into our room till I walked in) he just kept saying to me 'Paint my toes Mummy? Paint my toes?'

Seriously, what do you do, laugh or cry?

So I think I'm going to have to put my nail polish collection under lock and key from now on.

Have you had any similar nail polish disasters?
Image via here

Have a great day,

Hair cut time

Thank the Lord for patient hairdressers!

My Mum, the hairdresser and I were in fits of laughter watching my little Will get his hair cut. 

He wriggled, said Hi to the people in the salon, played with the combs, spray bottle, showed the hair dresser his dance moves, singing voice with renditions of 'Old MacDonald' and Neon Tree's 'Animals' song with 'Uh Oh.... I want some more...'. 

He was worried about the hairdresser cutting around his ears and would squirm and say 'Ouchy'. I insisted that it wasn't hurting him and pointed out the man next to him having the hair around his ears cut. Will then enquired to the man 'You O-tay man???'

After nearly half an hour his hair was done and his little mop top is now under control.

Have a great day,

Big boys toys

This week Will has been in heaven. There have been lots of big boys toys in our street.

 

Our street was resurfaced so there were steam rollers, tip up trucks and little diggers. They even gave a few little 'hoot hoots' to Will as they went past - made his day!

 

And earlier this week a house around the corner was demolished (another one bites the dust).

So we sat in one of our neighbours front yards for over half and hour watching the action.

I remember a few months ago a little old lady was talking to me about Will and she said that when boys are little you think they'll all end up being truck drivers or firemen... yep pretty much!

Have a great day everyone,

It was 'wear your PJs to daycare day' yesterday!

 

So Will rocked a red and blue Thomas ensemble!

Eeeeek!!!

Look what happens when you aren't watching...
Will trying to brush Minky's teeth with his toothbrush - blaaaaaaaaaagh!

Have a lovely day,

William's Party: Owl theme

On Saturday we celebrated William's 2nd Birthday with an Owl themed birthday party at home.

Here are some pics of the special day. 

(click to see enlarged).

  

I kept the colours simple with a blue and green theme. 

We had a simple sweets table for the kids and a more savoury table for the adults.

I asked the lovely Naomi of Taylored4baby to make Will's owl shirt, how cute is it! Naomi was wonderful to deal with and made the shirt in blues and greens to match the party colours. Thanks so much Naomi!

 

 The kids had bubble wands to play with. 

And I made owls using the white paper lanterns I had left over from my 30th. Strung up bunting and made blue tissue paper pom poms to hang above the sweets table.

 

 We had pass the parcel and lots of yummy treats.

 

The kids did craft, making their own Owl hats from paper plates. I cut out the plates and attached ribbon and boggley eyes, they coloured them in and stuck the feathers on, they looked so cute in their hats!

 

 I made the party bags from white paper bags and used scrap booking paper to make little owl cards with blue and white ribbon. My friend Oli bought the brightly coloured whoopie cakes and I cheated and bought the little cupcakes.

 

 Will had such a fun time and got stuck into the chips and everything sweet (as he's not usually allowed sweets). Kate from Another Donkey Design sent me a link for the recipe of the Owl cupcake cake I made above, it was quite easy and all the kids loved the cupcakes.

The whole day was so much fun, the weather JUST held out for us so the kids could run around and play.

And a serendipitous end to the day occurred when Glen was out the front of our house at night and a car pulled up. It was the people from WIRES and they were looking for a big gum tree to release a Tawny Frogmouth owl (well they are not actually classed as owls but they hoot and look exactly like an owl). So they released it into our gum tree and they said listen out for his hoot. His name is Attila as he tended to bite his rescuers. So we ended our Owl themed day with our own Owl being delivered to our tree! How cool is that!

Have a great day,

We loved you before we met you

Here is my gorgeous little man, only a few hours old. Doesn't he looks so beautiful, peaceful and perfect?

I think it's because he's going to be TWO soon that I've been thinking back about Will as a little bubba.

And all those thoughts have prompted me to design a new print which I think sums up not only the feelings of new parents/grandparents etc but it's also a reminder of the love for a child.

We loved you before we met you - blue

Customised with your child's name and date of birth...

It's kind of based on the Keep Calm prints in it's style.

I've just put it up on the shops and you can find it here:
Etsy
Madeit
My Sweet Prints Shop

What do you think? I'd love to know!

2nd Birthday party planning

So my little bubba is turning 2 at the end of next month!!! (and I know he's not a bubba any more but I think I will call him my bubba till he's 50 or something :)

So anyway I'm thinking of doing an Owl theme party as he LOVES owls at the moment.
All birds are Owls... he spots a bird and says 'Oooooowweeell' and I'm like 'Um no Will, that's an Indian Minor Bird' hehehe.

So I'm thinking of doing a blue and green theme with owls. I've already bought a few things, table cloth, blue plates, blue and green cups, blue and white stripe paper straws, blue and white spotted serviettes and blue and green bunting.

I will attempt to make an owl cake and I was thinking of using all the white paper lanterns I have from my 30th and stick eyes, triangle beak and wings onto them so they look like big owls flying all over the deck. What do you think?

I don't want to go quite so over board or have as many people as we had for Will's 1st birthday which you can see here.

But I hope it will be fun. So if you have any ideas for me for owl themed things or games for toddlers that would be great!

Have a great day,

Wordless Wednesday

Asleep in the car with Dadda's uggs in hand (the shoe fetish continues).

For more Wordless Wednesday posts go here.

Have a great day,

A very special day

Yesterday was William's Thanksgiving Service/Naming Day.... like a christening but without the water :)

It was such a nice day. Will was very good during the service, was relatively quiet and even gave himself a round of applause at the end. Our minister Tony did a fantastic job and my sister did such a lovely prayer. Glen's brother, his wife and my sister became Will's godparents, so it was a very special day.

Here we are up the front, Will being held by our minister Tony.

After the service our close family and friends came back for lunch and a little celebration.

I kept it as a simple blue theme with different shades of blue.
I bought the paper bunting from our local party shop, as well as some cute blue and white stripe paper cups. I put up the white paper lanterns that I had for my birthday.

Here is my mum helping put the food out.

And the lunch was very simple - a few different salads, potato bake, chicken and rolls.

Here is the new godmother, my sister with her little godson. Doesn't he look handsome in his check shirt!

Cupcakes with 'W's on them.

Christening cake my friend Emma made.

Here we are cutting the cake, it was chocolate, yum!

William certainly enjoyed it!

And I made these personalised chocolate bars for the guests to take home.

It was a lovely day all round.

What did you get up to on the weekend?