To my most beautiful Poddy wiggle, in less than 12 hours you will be a whole one years old, this is totally shocking in some ways as it truely feels like you were just born a minute ago. Your first year on earth has been a magnificent one. You have grown and reached all your milestones faster than expected, you just have to walk. Lena has been encouraging this milestone by making you push your cart around the house and up and down the long passage. You can now also, point to your tummy on request, your nose, my nose and you put both little chubby hands over your eyes when I ask you to show me where your head is. You kiss us too, when we bug you for kisses, you adore your daddy and kiss him the most, you also do this very funny frown thing when I talk sternly to you about staying seated in your high chair. You hair is getting longer and you seem to have many soft curls that bounce all over your head. You love foot wear, and hold your feet out for socks and on occasion for shoes too. You dont let me put clips or bows in your hair and you tug at bibs and necklaces, but you love the hair dryer and come and sit beside me when Im straightening my hair in hope that I flick the dryer over your little head. Gioia simply adores you and tries on every occasion to hold your hand or kiss your face, you tolerate the attention only about 21% of the time. Oh boy, can you eat, anything and everything. You have a wonderful appetite for tasty food and life it would seem. You are now off the breast and enjoy the warm bottles of nido we give you. Gioia and I have just finished wrapping your birthday gifts in pretty flowery paper and Gioia has hidden the items in her cupboard till the morning. We are so excited to share in this moment with you as you fill our lives with so much love I cant even put into words for you to read. Your little face as you peer over your cot in the mornings is perfect and fair and your shiny blue eyes are always happy and enquiring. Daddy calls you Dora as you explore all day long, in here, out there, up here, opening this, closing that. You are a beautiful perfect human being with a wonderful nature and temprement and I cannot wait to see what the next year brings, I can only forsee more wonderful moments, much hearty laughter and memories that will keep me company when you are big and off somewhere on your own, conquering the world and shining for Jesus. Happy Birthday my precious girl. I love you so much my hearts sometimes feels like its going to either implode or explode, I can never be sure. God gave you to us and we will raise you the best way we know how and we will give you a life full of adventure, stories, memories and hope. You will know exactly who you are and how much we love you and that you can do anything and be the best.
I love you
Your MOMMY
Monday, September 3, 2012
WARNING: A barbie's hair cannot be blow waved
Gioia spent Saturday morning grooming her newish princess barbie. Mind you I dont think she is the real deal. She did cost more than a two-for-one cindy doll. Bean bathed her and washed and conditioned her lovely lady locks. I then set up the hair dryer for her in her room. Ten minutes later I came in to supervise on the makeover. Boy, was it an extreme one. Most of her combable hair had melted into a solid lump on the one side of her teeny pink head. Gioia thought some more conditioner would do the trick but I knew better. I suggested she pretend to be that hair cut lady and with her penguin pair of scissors relieve the doll of her once bum-length coif. At first Gioia had a real problem doing this as she knows it won't grow back, but with just enough encouragement and prompting she zapped it off. Doll looks like she survived zeclon B.
Plastic bags can have many purposes
I think you need to weigh under 20kg for this game to work. Gioia learnt this at school, climb into a plastic bag and jump, and race, and win.
Fluffy can draw
Isla is neither left nor right, she is both, she is amazing, at drawing on large objects like the garage doors.
To infinity...and beyond
Here is Beanie, practising to cross her midline by drawing and infinity curve over and over and then onto the wall, {sigh}!
Glorious glass
We have so much glass in the house. I can't throw away Isla's purity bottles, I will however have to recycle them all at some point. I did a bit of sprucing up and sprayed a lace effect onto a drinking bottle and I tried my hand at 'baking in a jar'! It works, see the rainbow cake.
Auditioning
Gioia's 1st audition for a scooters TV advert happened the day it snowed in Pretoria, brief but phenomenal, both the audtition and the snowflakes.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Its my Birthday
...and now I am 33 years, the same day as the opening of the 30th Olympics...yay for me. I thought to get a princess cake because I know Gioia would think I'm the coolest mom ever.
Kids on Camera
Both Gioia and Isla are now being represented by Kids on Camera, I so hope they get cute gigs! Just to add some colour to our lives.
Gioia holidays solo
My girlie is such a star, she has left the nest, for just a week! My heart just bursts with pride at the thought of her independent nature and her love of adventures..."Gioia, this house is so quiet without you, but we are so impressed with your willingness to try the 'unknown".
Bags in hand...off she goes...
Bags in hand...off she goes...
Playdate and Prayer
Our group of committed moms has grown from 2, Carike and me, to 6, which means we are just 2 shy of the 8 moms I envisioned sitting around the deck table, heads bowed in prayer battle unison. This really excites me. We now meet once every 3 weeks and our lists of prayers for our children have gone from simple requests of protection to elaborate prayers of healing. We are 'covering' our children from head to toe and ensuring that they are ready for their daily challenges and their future endevours, and their walk with the Lord. We all bring along little prayer note books where we write down what we feel the Holy Spirit wants us to focus on in their lives and I so look forward to reflecting on these notes a year from now and seeing my prayers answered. I am so unbelievably grateful for this group. After listening to each ones unique conversation with Him, and having my feelings, thoughts, hopes and dreams said out loud I always feel calm, fulfilled and certain that my girls will have a life with meaning and the ability to cope with anything that comes their way. At the last prayer group we tackled rather serious subject matter, with much grace I might add, of breaking bonds in our lives that we do not want passed down to our children, and I know now without any doubt that my familys tendencies towards mental illness will have no stronghold in my home and on my Gioia and Isla, they will have clear heads forever. I also want to praise the Lord for keeping my girls in good health this winter, neither of them have been to a doctor and Isla has still not had to go on a course of dreaded anti-biotics. This has been my number 1 request at every meeting, 'Supernatural Health'! So Blessed to have you moms in my life, So Blessed to have your children in my home and So honoured to sit beside you as we wage war on all the elements that bring us down. Here's to sharing boxes of tissues as we make our journeys together.
Our children will shine, our children ARE SHINING!
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Shaving cream paint for bath time
I knew Gioia would love this, I had no idea Isla would DO HER NUT! Such fun...quick cheap and easy. Note though...it does colour the tiling grout he he he!
Laundry
...sort a little, nap a little!
Johan took Isla for the afternoon while we had the P&P, she didnt get a chance to nap of course!
Johan took Isla for the afternoon while we had the P&P, she didnt get a chance to nap of course!
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Blessed Playdate and Prayer
Thank you Jesus for my wonderful praying mommy friends. I can't begin to explain the peace I feel when we gather around on the deck and pray for our children. Its a beautiful thing! Johan bbm me tonight from church to say that the Lord has put it on his heart to tell us that He is pleased with our group and that we should TRUST Him with MORE in all of our prayers, step out and He will be there. I can't wait to see you all again. LOVE YOU GUYS!
