Techno kids
Technology means Gioia can sing happy birthday to Liam via skype and Isla can enjoy virtual fish that are fed by clicking your mouse.
In our home...
...time is balanced between doing chores... (she insisted on doing them!)
and enjoying the freedom to ride ones scooter in the sun...
Grandfather - GET BETTER SOON
My dad, better known as Grandfather, climbed up a ladder Sunday morning and instead of climbing down one foot at a time flew off it and landed on a cement floor in the foetal position paratrooper style. He is currently calling Welkom his home as he is shuttled between surgeries. He has broken just about every important bone on the right hand side of his body including his Femur. An accident of this magnitude has never happened to a close family member of mine and I must say I am quite traumatised by the experience. Instead of being able to jump into my car and fly across two provinces to assist I have sit bang and let the family members without children take control and call the shots. And so we wait for news. The road to recovery is going to be long and tedious, but Daddy, I hope you get better soon or at least feel better soon. Pod and Bean will be by your side when the worst is over. WE DO LOVE YOU VERY MUCH. In closing, until we magically sprout feathers and wings we should refrain from ladders, gravity is a mistress we can only 'flip the bird' to so many times. Thank you Johan and Ansie for aiding him and getting him to the hospital.
Long warm Autumn weekend
The leaves are fading in both colour and quantity. They are falling from the branches and now prefer rather to lie at the bottom of our swimming pool, irritating both my husband and Wendell the creepy crawley. I have a new appreciation for the changing of the seasons thanks to our new house and established garden full of trees. The autumn hues of ginger and orange are evident from every bedroom window. Gioia and Liam (and family tag alongs like moms and siblings) spent Saturday afternoon in the park eating ice cream, holding hands and running up the still green grassy embankments. It was such a sunny happy day that they even braved the shallow pool, removing items of clothing one by one as they got wet.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Lollos
Gioia loved the outing, she danced and sang along and we came home with a DVD and a Lettie doll.
Granny B blows out candles on cupcakes
Happy Birthday to you Granny B, the most wonderful granny under the sun. We love you.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Johan and Isla
Big little helper
Yesterday Gioia was on a helping streak. She assisted her daddy with a big garage clean up and then she found time to help me sort Isla's food into freezer containers.
Isla's lists of first coming on nicely
You are growing up fast little lady, it would seem faster than your sister in many respects. Gioia will have to keep on her toes, you are going to give your big sister a run for her money and I really love that about you. You seem so confident and independent and you are not even 8 months old. Your daddy says your a sassy diva and you know what you like and dont like...and my oh my do you like to eat. So proud that you are mine, we adore you and agree that you are the best baby we could have ever received from God.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Gioia and Isla wake up together
This is where Johan and I found the girls chillaxing...just hanging...and chatting.
...when Isla was a brunette
Our little monkey is a blonde...but she started off as a brunette only a few months ago.
Baby-cinno
Johan and Gioia have a thing, I'm not invited most of the time. Once or twice a week he takes his daughter on a date. Here they are on yet another one, after church he took her for a quick cuppa...and sent me the photo to prove they dont miss me.
Toosh
Once a month I dedicate a quick photoshoot to Isla and email it to the grandparents and also publish it on Facebook. This month I did a naked bum photo of her with all her little friends. Gioia wanted to get in on the action, so she stripped down and perched her patootie next her sisters. The result can be seen below.
Sponge Bob's crabby patties
They might not be made from real crab, rather tuna, but they are so delicious. 1x tin tuna, 1x egg, quarter cup bread crumbs, 1tsp mustard and fry in oil...lip smackingly delicious. A real treat for my sponge bob fan.
Touchy feely
Man oh man did Isla enjoy this afternoons touchy feel rough and smooth session...first with only her fingertips, then both hands, then from hand to mouth. We ended up giving her a full body scrub, from head to toe.
My Greatest Love, Johan
Baby, I want to put it in black and white and shout it from the roof tops, via blogging, how much I love you and how much I appreciate your amazing help with me and our two girlies, especially these last two weeks. Your quiet strength Johan, is the wind beneath my wings, however high that statement rates on your cheese-o meter. I can see everyday your very conscious effort to fit into our house and family by paying attention to my requests, the ones I ask and the ones I yell at you from across the kitchen. I have not once tripped over a pair of your shoes, that normally find their way into my path during night time nursing routines, or walked into a pile of your clothes, that normaly lie scatterd around the washing basket like a sacred circle. Having you home has made a difference to my life and the day to day business of existing. Most importantly, you rock the lives of your girls, Gioia and Isla, with your ever loving and hands on approach to them. You are this incredible human being Baby, and I feel like I won first prize when I bagged you 897. Being around you makes me feel incredible, wonderful and worthy. I aspire to be more like you because as a spiritual faithful partner and parent you are one of a kind. I want to love you more and more and show you my most sincere appreciation by being the best wife I can be for you. It is a role that I have not excelled in for many months, simply because you have not been here but this morning I feel an excitement in my heart at the possibility of me being a really fantastic partner to you. I want to learn all about you again and walk beside you and nurture the special relationship we have and share. Thank you for giving me time to work on my design label and for taking an interest in this, my most favourite hobby, which is hours behind my laptop and now your laptop too. Your fresh interest in the mundane things such as cooking and cleaning has awakened a shimmering spark in me. That dreaded feeling of routine and duty is subsiding into a feeling of 'ways of expressing' my love for you and my girls, which shows me, most importantly, that the balance is being restored in our family life. You are thee most considerate beautiful man, and you are the greatest Blessing in my life, even more so than the girls. You humble me and I want to honour you, I want to make you proud, I want to never be without you again, and I want you to look at me once more like you once did in the beginning of the love story that is ours. I love you in every way, LV
